Climacteric symptoms in Quechua and Mestizo women from the Andean region of Cusco, Peru: Effects of altitude and ethnicity

Peruvian “Quechuas” women have severer climacteric symptoms than the Peruvian “Hispanic-Mestizas” who live in a comparable altitude. This could suggest that the ethnicity could be one of the factors that could explain the augmented symptoms in Latin-American climacteric woman.