{"id":8167,"date":"2025-11-01T19:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:08:55","slug":"new-medically-reviewed-app-bridges-health-information-gap-for-perimenopausal-asian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8167","title":{"rendered":"New medically reviewed app bridges health information gap for perimenopausal Asian women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/10\/29\/85862bac-7736-4c47-8cde-4629ffeb22e2_dd0511ae.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Grace Oh began experiencing perimenopause symptoms around the age of 45, including sleep difficulties and low energy, a well-known gynaecologist in Singapore dismissed them, saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t be in perimenopause \u2013 your periods are still regular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The information was wrong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Other doctors told her that \u201cmenopause is a normal part of ageing, not a disease\u201d, leaving little space for a deeper discussion about her physical and emotional changes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese encounters \u2013 at different points in my life \u2013 revealed a consistent pattern: many doctors lack the framework, language or confidence to address menopause holistically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Left with more questions than answers, South Korean Oh began sharing evidence-based information online. This initiative sowed the seeds for a career pivot that would see the graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School leave a successful Wall Street career to pursue the under-researched menopause care market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere has been very little research on women\u2019s health beyond fertility, and many women have been dismissed or misdiagnosed,\u201d Oh says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3330720\/new-medically-reviewed-app-bridges-health-information-gap-perimenopausal-asian-women?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Grace Oh began experiencing perimenopause symptoms around the age of 45, including sleep difficulties and low energy, a well-known gynaecologist in Singapore dismissed them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[524,2027,7757,7758,1714,6,7756,7759,725,274],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-app","tag-asian","tag-bridges","tag-gap","tag-health","tag-information","tag-medically","tag-perimenopausal","tag-reviewed","tag-women","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}