Adjusted for age, education, family history of breast cancer, history of benign breast disease, parity, age at first birth, age at menarche,
age at menopause, oral contraceptive use, postmenopausal hormone use, BMI, physical activity, smoking, calcium supplement use, and alcohol intake.
All of the participants, who were at least 65 years old when the study began, had already passed through menopause but provided detailed information about their hormone use and
age at menopause.
«This study highlights the need for healthcare providers to take into consideration a woman's
age at menopause onset when evaluating patients for fracture risk,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.
The article, «Differences in age at death according to smoking and
age at menopause,» will be published in the January 2016 print edition of Menopause.
A harmful association between younger
age at menopause and overall mortality has already been documented.
«Older
age at menopause and use of hormone therapy produce increased risk of hearing loss: Unexpected results of new study show higher risk of hearing loss when using oral hormone therapy for longer duration.»
Cigarette smoking, which decreases
age at menopause, has been identified as the only lifestyle factor modifying this association.
The Swedish study involving 25,474 women is the first to quantify the combined effects of smoking and
age at menopause on overall mortality in terms of survival time by investigating the role of smoking as a possible effect modifier.
Short total reproductive duration was associated with an increased risk of heart failure, which was found to be related to an earlier
age at menopause and was more pronounced in women who experienced natural, rather than surgical, menopause.
Not exact matches
Sure, women and men going through
menopause and andropause may experience the odd gap, but there is absolutely no reason why our elders should be considered less valuable than their younger counterparts or feel they have to be shown the retirement door
at age 65.
My mom went into
menopause at the
age of 55.
Is it a coincidence that women often undergo the physiological change of
menopause at an
age when they might have young grandchildren on hand?
Women who begin
menopause before
age 46 or after 55 have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of more than 124,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative, a large national trial aimed
at preventing disease in postmenopausal women.
Researchers examined 28,516 postmenopausal women without cardiovascular disease from the Women's Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live births,
age at first pregnancy lasting
at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from first menstruation to
menopause) with incident heart failure.
The women completed extensive health questionnaires, including questions about reproductive history,
age at first period and
age of
menopause.
Postmenopausal women who reached
menopause at an earlier
age or who never gave birth are
at a higher risk for heart failure, according to research published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
«Starting menstrual periods
at a young
age and childlessness increase risk of premature and early
menopause.»
The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the
age of 35 years who had their first period
aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early
menopause.
Women who had their first menstrual period when they were
aged 11 or younger have an increased risk of an early or premature
menopause and if they remain childless the risk is increased even more, according to results from the first large scale, multi-national study to investigate the links between
age at puberty and
menopause and whether or not a woman has had children.
On average, women enter
menopause at around 50 years of
age.
While the genes themselves do not result in early onset
menopause, variations of the genes — CYP3A4 * 1B and CYP1B1 * 3 — were found to increase the risk of entering
menopause at an earlier
age in white smokers.
In 10 generations, Framingham female descendents» weight and onset of
menopause will increase by about 1 %, height and
age at first childbirth will decrease by about 1 %, and cholesterol levels will fall by about 4 %, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
«The finding from this observational study that women who underwent
menopause at a later
age and used oral hormone therapy had greater hearing loss was unexpected but should lead to more testing in a randomized, clinical trial,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.
In this study that followed a large population of Swedish women over 16 years, the difference in median
age at death between women with
menopause at 40 years and women with
menopause at 60 years was 1.3 years.
Now results from the first large population study conducted to assess the association show that older
age at natural
menopause and the use of oral HT are each associated with a higher risk of hearing loss.
The finding that older
age at natural
menopause was also associated with a higher risk of hearing loss was unexpected, and the mechanisms for this association were unclear.
When the analysis was restricted to current smokers, the difference in
age at death between women with
menopause at age 40 years and women with
menopause at 60 years increased from 1.3 years to 2.6 years.
Woman go through
menopause at different
ages, so Marcelle Cedars
at the University of California, San Francisco, wondered if the bodies of women who end up experiencing it early may be intrinsically
ageing faster that those who experience it later.
«I had a patient whose
menopause had established five years ago,
at the
age of 40,» says Sfakianoudis.
Prescriptions of compounded hormones aren't systematically tracked the way those for FDA - approved drugs are, so the analysts used two large internet surveys of middle -
aged and older US women to gauge how commonly they use approved hormone therapy and compounded hormone therapy
at menopause.
Underweight women who lost 9 kilograms or more
at least three times between the
ages of 18 and 20 were more than twice as likely to experience premature
menopause.
Those who fell into this category
at any
age had, on average, a 30 per cent greater risk of early
menopause compared with women with a «normal» BMI of between 18.5 and 22.4.
«For decades, scientists have disagreed over whether
menopause causes
aging or
aging causes
menopause,» said Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics
at the David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and a senior author on both studies.
Eight years later, he said, her body would be a full year older biologically than another 50 - year - old woman who entered
menopause naturally
at age 50.
For example, women with early
menopause are candidates for hormone therapy until
at least the average
age of
menopause (52 years) to reduce the risks of heart disease, osteoporosis, and cognitive and mood changes.
While osteoporosis can develop in both men and women
at different
ages, it most frequently affects older women who have gone through
menopause (estrogen levels drop during
menopause, and experts believe the hormone helps maintain bone density).
The average American woman reaches
menopause at age 51.
Beginning or maintaining an exercise program
at this
age not only helps mitigate the damage of hormonal change but also helps decrease many of the associated health impacts of
menopause.
For example, a woman who began early
menopause at age 42 would be a full year older biologically
at age 50 than a woman that same
age who began
menopause at age 50.
When women
aged 45 to 55 suffering meno symptoms ate soy foods
at least three times a week, high soy consumers who produced equol were 76 % less likely than non-equol producers to report above - average frequency of hot flushes and night sweats, researchers wrote in the North American
Menopause Society's journal.
From 322,972 women between the
ages of 25 and 70, the team of researchers gathered data on how old the subjects were
at various female biological events — first period, giving birth, breast - feeding,
menopause, etc. — and other factors that would have affected these events, like taking oral contraceptives.
But there is evidence that the
age at which Mom went through
menopause may give you clues about your own fertility.
The study was carried out in Tehran, Iran, where in comparison to the US, the average
age is younger of women
at menopause: 48.2 years in Iran as opposed to 51 years in the US.
Defined as not having a period for
at least a year,
menopause occurs
at an average
age of 51, although onset can vary widely.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Those memory lapses many women notice around
menopause are real, and they can begin
at a relatively young
age, researchers report.
I had POSC and high testosterone for years, now it has been higher since
menopause at the
age of 55 and a gradual degrease of hair and increase of body hair.
The early stage of
menopause can begin
at around
age thirty - five (35).
She was so thrilled that he mentioned her in his book «What Your Doctor Hasn't Told You About
Menopause», and was very saddened
at the news of his death
at the
age of 75 in 2003.
Peri-
menopause starts
at age 35, or starts 10 years before
menopause, depending on who you ask.
Everything hit the fan
at age 50 when I hit
menopause abruptly, couldn't get out of bed.