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The impact of menopausal status on menopausal candidiasis in IDDM patients and healthy women

The role of menopausal status in vaginal infections was studied in IDDM patients and healthy women. Relationship between chronic diabetic complications and vaginal candidiasis in diabetics was also investigated. Study group of 65 women with IDDM were matched by 59 healthy control women. Vaginal swabs were cultured on Sabouraud agar at 27 and 35 °C. Candida albicans colonies grew after 3-15 days. In the control group, there were 20% and 17.2% of pre- and postmenopausal women with candidiasis, respectively. There was no significant difference between these two subgroups. In the study group, a higher rate of vaginal candidiasis (24%) was recorded in postmenopausal women. There was no significant relationship between the menopausal status and vaginal candidiasis. Neither was any significant difference observed when the rate of vaginal candidiasis was compared between IDDM patients with concurrent nephropathy and neuropathy, and patients with at least one of other diabetic complications. Each diabetic patient with vaginal candidiasis had at least one diabetic complication. There was no significant difference between the patients with and without diabetic complications according to vaginal candidiasis.

vaginal candidiasis; diabetes mellitus; postmenopause

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