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Lynnette Leidy Sievert is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. As a biological anthropologist, she studies menopause as an aspect of human variation. She is interested in explaining variation in age at menopause and variation in symptom experience at midlife across cultures. She has interviewed women about their menopausal experiences in upstate New York; western Massachusetts; Puebla, Mexico; the Selska Valley, Slovenia; Asuncion, Paraguay; Hilo, Hawaii; and Sylhet, Bangladesh. She is the author or co-author of over forty journal articles having to do with women's health, and author of the book Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective (2006). As a biological anthropologist, she is also interested in explaining the evolution of menopause and post-reproductive life as a by-product of other adaptations. In 2010 she was been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of her scientifically and socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications, and was honored for “distinguished contributions to the biocultural study of women’s health, particularly for enhancing understanding of menopause and its relation to broader aspects of women’s lives.”

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Areas of Interest: Reproductive Ecology, Human Variation, Women's Health

Current Grants:

2012-15. NSF. Variation in Symptoms at Midlife: Ethnic and Rural/Urban Comparisons.

Recent Grants:

2006-08. NSF. Reproductive Aging and Symptom Experience at Midlife among Bangladeshi Immigrants, Sedentes, and White London Neighbors. Gillian Bentley and Shanthi Muttukrishna, co-PIs

Selected Publications:

"Age-Related Differences in Health Complaints: The Hilo Women's Health Study." Women and Health 45:31-51, 2007. With L. A. Morrison, A. M. Reza, D. E. Brown, E. Kalua and H. A. T. Tefft.

"Vasomotor Symptoms among Japanese and European-American Women Living in Hilo, Hawaii." Menopause 14:261-69, 2007. With L. Morrison, D. Brown and A. Reza.

"Hot Flashes are Associated with Increased Ambulatory Systolic Blood Pressure." Menopause 14:308-15, 2007. With L. M. Gerber, K. Warren, T. G. Pickering and J. E. Schwartz.

"Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Midlife, Aging, and Menopause." Menopause 14:663-67, 2007. With C. M. Obermeyer.

"Symptom Groupings at Midlife: Cross-Cultural Variation and Association with Job, Home, and Life Change." Menopause 14:798-807, 2007. C. M. Obermeyer and M. Saliba.

"Variation in Sweating Patterns: Implications for Studies of Hot Flashes through Skin Conductance." Menopause 14:742-51, 2007.

"Medication Use and Gender in Western Massachusetts: Results of a Household Survey." Health Care for Women International 28:593-613, 2007. With C. M. Obermeyer, K. Price, M. Schulein and D. Anderton.

"Determinants of Hot Flashes and Night Sweats." Annals of Human Biology 33:4-16, 2006. With C. M. Obermeyer and K. Price.

Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

"Geographical Distribution of Hot Flash Frequencies: Considering Climatic Influences." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128:437-43, 2005.  With E. K. Flanagan.

"Musculoskeletal Pain among Women of Menopausal Age in Puebla, Mexico." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 20:127-40, 2005. With S. Goode-Null.

"Validating Signals of Ovulation: Do Women Who Think They Know Really Know?" American Journal of Human Biology 17:310-20, 2005. With C. DuBois.

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