---
title: menopausalState
framework: healthkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/menopausalstate
---

# menopausalState

An identifier for samples that record a person’s menopausal state.

## Declaration

```swift
static let menopausalState: HKCategoryTypeIdentifier
```

## Mentioned in

Recording and querying menopausal state

## Discussion

Discussion Use this category type to record which menopausal state applies at a specific point in time. Each sample is a point-in-time entry where the start date equals the end date, and the value is one of the HKCategoryValueMenopausalState cases: HKCategoryValueMenopausalState.menopause, HKCategoryValueMenopausalState.perimenopause, or HKCategoryValueMenopausalState.none. Apps can interpret these point-in-time samples as state changes, confirmations that a state applied at a particular date, or both. When creating a menopausal state sample, the framework requires that the start date and end date be identical. Attempting to save a sample where these dates differ results in an error.

## See Also

### Menopause

- [Recording and querying menopausal state](healthkit/recording-and-querying-menopausal-state.md)
- [bleedingAfterMenopause](healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/bleedingaftermenopause.md)
- [HKCategoryValueMenopausalState](healthkit/hkcategoryvaluemenopausalstate.md)