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142 - Losing my wife: was her perimenopause a contributing factor? With Peter Smith

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

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The Relationship Between Hormones and Female Suicide

I lost my wife Victoria last April after a two year battle with mental health. She took her life, the trust carried out a patient safety investigation incident report and they then begin to realise that opportunities may have been missed. The perimenopause could well have been one of the major factors which they never seriously considered. Sadly there's very little good quality evidence in this area because the studies haven't been done.

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