Introduction: Women are exposed to plethora of health complaints during reproductive life, premenopause and menopause due to altered lifestyle, dietary pattern, hormonal changes and their sociodemographic profile. The urban and rural women experience problems related to neurological, psychological and other endocrinal manifestations during these stages. The present study was designed to find out the relation between socio demographic, menstrual pattern, dietary influence and lifestyle determinants on health status of productive, perimenopausal and menopausal women. Materials and Methods: This crosssectional community based comparative study was conducted in the rural and urban field practice area of a Medical College in Karnataka. Health status of women in productive age, perimenopausal and menopausal life was collected. Association between socio demographic factors, dietary factors and lifestyle determinants was analyzed among the study participants. Results: We found that backache and abdominal pain are the predominant symptoms among both rural and urban women of productive age group. Younger women had more abdominal pain when compared with perimenopausal women who complained more of knee and back pain. (p<0.05), younger the age at menarche, lesser the frequency of abdominal and back pain (p<0.05), those who were practicing contraceptive method had fibroid uterus as a predominant comorbid feature and minor ailments were seen among those without any contraception (p<0.05). Those who were on vegetarian diet had minor ailments when compared with those on non vegetarian diet who showed more incidence of fibroid uterus among them (p<0.05). Conclusion: The quality of health status of reproductive and menopausal women is affected by their socio demographic factors, hormonal changes, menstrual pattern, dietary intake and lifestyle.

Keywords: Diet; Lifestyle; Menopause; PeriMenopause; Productive Women.