Menopause Age and Anxiety-Depression

Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy women over 24 years of age who visited our hospital for routine outpatient check-ups, had been diagnosed with menopause, and had no history of psychiatric disorders before menopause. Exclusion Criteria: * Cardiovascular diseases including hypertension * Type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus * Morbid obesity * Primary adrenal insufficiency * Uterine fibroids * Thyroid dysfunctions including Hashimoto thyroiditis and Grave's disease * Hepatic dysfunctions * Renal insufficiency * Genetic disorders in chromosome constitution or karyotype analysis including monosomy X, trisomy X and gene mutations as BMP15, FMR I, POFIB, and GDF9 * Neurologic diseases * Psychiatric disorders * Autoimmune diseases or syndromes including Addison's disease, autoimmune syndromes, scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, myasthenia gravis, inflammatory bowel diseases, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and familial Mediterranean fever * History of any malignancy * History of exposure to chemotherapeutic agents or radiotherapy * Individuals with a history of chronic or regular medication use that could cause anxiety or depression symptoms * Individuals with a personal history of psychiatric disorders * Individuals with a history of depression in the past 6 months.