The risk increased even further for women whose periods started early if they had no children: the risk of premature or
early menopause increased five-fold and two-fold respectively compared to women who had their first period aged 12 or older and who had two or more children.
Not exact matches
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.
«
Early and late
menopause can
increase risk of type 2 diabetes: Length of lifetime reproductive cycle can affect risk.»
Previous studies linked
early menopause to an
increased risk of diabetes, but this study is one of the first to show that later
menopause also puts women at higher risk.
«Starting menstrual periods at a young age and childlessness
increase risk of premature and
early menopause.»
They found that breast cancer incidence rose 25 percent from the
early 1980s to the
early 1990s — a period when an
increasing number of women were getting mammograms and also undergoing hormone therapy to control
menopause symptoms and prevent chronic disease.
Women who had never been pregnant or who had never had children had a two-fold
increased risk of premature
menopause and a 30 %
increased risk of
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.
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.
We already know that smoking causes
early menopause in women of all races, but these new results show that if you are a white smoker with these specific genetic variants, your risk of entering
menopause at any given time
increases dramatically,» said the study's lead author Samantha F. Butts, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn Medicine.
«Our findings suggest that women who are underweight in
early or mid-adulthood may be at
increased risk for
early menopause,» says Kathleen Szegda at the University of Massachusetts, who led the study.
Early menopause affects up to 10 per cent of women, and is linked to
increased risks of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and cognitive decline.
A study published in the British Medical Journal has investigated the impacts of tobacco exposure on women's health, which reports an
increased risk of infertility and
early onset of
menopause with passive (secondhand smoke) as well as active exposure to tobacco.
Research shows the decrease in hormones that comes with
early menopause also
increases your risk of premature death, neurological diseases, psychosexual dysfunction, mood disorders, osteoporosis, ischemic heart disease, and infertility.
«A high level of circulating insulin could interfere with sex hormone activity and boost estrogen levels, both of which might
increase the number of menstrual cycles and deplete egg supply faster, thus causing an
earlier menopause.»
A woman's risk
increases dramatically when she hits
menopause, usually in her
early 50s.
Unfortunately, there are many other side effects that can occur from a hysterectomy including
early menopause, an
increased risk of osteoporosis and of course, the inability to become pregnant.