Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society
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To systematically review published articles for the prevalence of menopausal symptoms in Asian women. ⋯ Although there is a wide variation in the reported prevalence of menopausal symptoms, physical symptoms predominate, followed by psychological symptoms, vasomotor symptoms and sexual symptoms. Further studies of representative samples are necessary to understand whether the variations in prevalence reporting are a function of methodological issues or due to ethnic, cultural or other socioeconomic differences.