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- Title
Multiple Factors, Including Genetic and Environmental Components, Influence When Menopause Begins.
- Authors
Remez, L.
- Abstract
A study shows that half of women reach natural menopause (i.e., not resulting from surgery) by 51.4 years of age, according to a large, multi- center study. Women who smoke, who have not graduated from college, who are formerly married, who are unemployed and who have had heart disease, all reach natural menopause sooner than other women. On the other hand, women who have taken the pill, Japanese American women and women who have ever given birth, all experience a delay in reaching natural menopause relative to other women. This study of roughly 15,000 women from five racial and ethnic groups, which controlled for a wide range of potentially confounding variables, represents the largest such study to be conducted so far in the United States. The researchers acknowledge that their study is limited by the time constraints of a cross-sectional survey, which prevents women from giving more complete details, especially regarding the precise timing of major events, such as the month of their final menstrual period (data were available on the year of that event only); thus, estimates of age at menopause may be inaccurate by up to one year in either direction.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MENOPAUSE; AMERICAN women; JAPANESE Americans; UNEMPLOYED women workers; ETHNIC groups; MENSTRUAL cycle
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, Vol 33, Issue 5, p236
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2673790