title: Body mass index and age at natural menopause.
abstract: A population of 1.076 women aged between 40 and 54 years has been studied using the method of cluster-stratified and random sampling. The median age at menopause was 46.24 +/- 0.13 (mean +/- SEM) years. Obese women reach menopause on an average of 1.7 years earlier than women with chronic energy deficiency (p < 0.01). Other potential correlative measures, education, marital status, number of children, and urban/rural residence were found to have an effect on the age at menopause.
authors.affiliation: Karadeniz (Black Sea) Technical University, Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beşer
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aydemir
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bozkaya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D015992:Body Mass Index; D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged