Correlation of body mass index and age of menopause in women attending medicine and gynaecology department of a tertiary care centre

Maru, Laxmi; Verma, Rishabh; Verma, Monica; Shrimal, Monica

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“… 16 , 33–35 In contrast to our results, several recent studies reported that smoking was correlated with the premature and/or early age of menopause. 18 , 20 , 23 Our findings highlighted that there is a significant positive association between BMI and age at menopause, which is in line with previous studies conducted in India 41 and China 18 but contradicts studies from Poland 33 and Iran. 34 Additionally, a meta-analysis of nine articles with a total of 313,482 participants reported that as the BMI of the women increased, the age at menopause also increased.…”

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Age at Natural Menopause and Influencing Factors in Women Attending the Gynecological Outpatient Clinic at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Ali,

Erkok,

Mohamed

et al. 2023

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Background Menopause is the irreversible cessation of menstruation that results from the lack of ovarian follicular function and is diagnosed after 12 consecutive months of amenorrhea without reasonable cause. This study aims to determine the average age at natural menopause and identify its associated factors among Somali women. Methods This is a cross-sectional study conducted at the Mogadishu Somalia Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan research and training hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology outpatient clinic between June 1 and July 1, 2023. Data was collected from subjects during the data collection period using face-to-face interviews with structured questionnaires consisting of sociodemographic, lifestyle, dietary, and reproductive characteristics. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to find the association between menopause age and target variables. Results Out of the 188 participants recruited for the study, the median age of menopause was 45.00 (95% CI = 44.50–45.62), and 48.9% had either premature or early menopause. The majority (53.7%) of the participants had a minimum of eight children. In Spearman’s rank correlation analysis, we found a significantly positive correlation between menopausal age and age at first ( p <0.01), last childbirth ( p <0.01), number of parities ( p <0.05), and age at marriage ( p <0.05). In multivariate logistic regression, we found that the odds of developing premature or early menopause among unemployed women were 59% lower than those of employed women (AOR = 0.41, 95% CI = 0.18–0.93). Conclusion In this study, we established that the age of natural menopause was lower than the findings reported by previous authors. We also found that employment status, education, history of contraceptive use, BMI, age at first and last childbirth, and parity were associated with age at natural menopause, suggesting that social, lifestyle, and reproductive factors may have an impact on menopausal age.

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confidence: 74%

Age at Natural Menopause and Influencing Factors in Women Attending the Gynecological Outpatient Clinic at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Ali,

Erkok,

Mohamed

et al. 2023

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“…The study of Boulos et al also found a significant positive association between being a female and nutritional status [27]. According to Maru et al the changes in the hormones caused by menopausal stage might contribute to an elder's weight gain around the abdomen compared to the thigh or hips, thus increasing the body mass index, which leads to being overweight or even obese [28].…”

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Nutritional Status among Filipino Elderly: Prevalence and Correlates

Navarro¹,

Tandang

Arlan

2020

Acta Medica

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Objective: The dual burden of undernutrition and overnutrition has received attention around the world, especially in the Philippines, where malnutrition is an issue that the country is continuously facing. Malnutrition have been prevalent and alarming concerns among the Filipino elderly through the years. Several studies support the claim that the prevalence of malnutrition is associated with factors, such as socioeconomic status, biochemical, clinical, dietary intake, and food security. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with the nutritional status of the Filipino elderly. Materials and Methods: The study utilized the 2013 National Nutrition Survey. Data of the 1,807 sampled Filipino elderly who had no physical defects were considered. The Rao-Scott test and a multiple correspondence analysis were conducted to assess the association of the nutritional status of the Filipino elderly with the socio-demographics, health/clinical conditions, and nutrient intake factors. Results: Majority (54.97%) of the Filipino elderly had a normal nutritional status. However, both the prevalence of underweight and overweight are still alarming with a 20.19% and 24.83% rate, respectively. The socio-demographic characteristics found that are associated with the nutritional status of the Filipino elderly include age, sex, occupation, and education. Health conditions and behavioral risk factors such as smoking and drinking alcohol beverages were also found to have significant association with the elderly’s nutritional status. Lastly, a significant association between the nutritional status and the intake of nutrients such as iron, Vitamin A, niacin, and thiamine was observed. Conclusion: With both underweight and overweight/obesity still rampant among the Filipino elderly, their lifestyle and food intake should be given much attention. Further studies about the nutritional status of the Filipino elderly should be conducted to have a sufficient basis on how society can help the elderly maintain and improve their nutritional conditions.

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“…Covariates were held constant in each analyses and selected based on existing literature on the demographic correlates of menopause symptoms and timing, and also based on the data we had available. These included parity (Li et al, ; Mishra et al, ; Parazzini, ; Wang et al, ), whether the woman was financially secure over the past year (as a measure of socioeconomic position/financial stress; Lawlor, Ebrahim, & Smith, ; Schoenaker, Jackson, Rowlands, & Mishra, ), body mass index (BMI; Ahuja, ; Li et al, ; Maru, Verma, Verma, & Shrimal, ; Parazzini, ; Sapre & Thakur, ; Tao et al, ; Wang et al, ; Zhu et al, ), and smoking habits (Ayatollahi, Ghaem, & Ayatollahi, ; Bjelland, Hofvind, Byberg, & Eskild, ; Gold et al, , ; McKnight et al, ; Nagel, Altenburg, Nieters, Boffetta, & Linseisen, ; Özdemir & Çöl, ; Parazzini, ; Sapre & Thakur, ; Tao et al, ; Wang et al, ). In addition, age was included in the model when looking at symptom duration and symptom severity, and menopause status when looking at symptom severity, to control for the possibility that retrospective accounts of menopause may differ to current reporting.…”

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Current ecology, not ancestral dispersal patterns, influences menopause symptom severity

Yang

Arnot

Mace

2019

Ecology and Evolution

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All human females who reach midlife experience menopause, however, it is currently unclear why women experience this period of infertility, and why it is accompanied by many unpleasant symptoms. Using primary data from four ethnic groups in China, we test an existing theory that age of menopause and its symptoms are the result of intragenomic conflict between maternally and paternally inherited genes, with the outcome of such conflict predicted to be contingent on the ancestral postmarital residence pattern of the female (Úbeda, Ohtsuki, & Gardner, Ecology Letters, 17, 2014, 165). The model predicts that being ancestrally patrilocal results in less intragenomic conflict, causing a shorter, less symptomatic perimenopause that terminates in a later menopause. Our findings show no support for this hypothesis and suggest current, rather than ancestral, residence patterns better predict aspects of the menopausal transition. Furthermore, current patrilocality when compared to duolocality is associated with more severe menopause symptoms, which may be due to sexual, rather than intragenomic, conflict. Open Research Badges This article has earned an Open Data Badge for making publicly available the digitally‐shareable data necessary to reproduce the reported results. The data is available at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.27s8k0p.

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Correlation of body mass index and age of menopause in women attending medicine and gynaecology department of a tertiary care centre

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Age at Natural Menopause and Influencing Factors in Women Attending the Gynecological Outpatient Clinic at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Age at Natural Menopause and Influencing Factors in Women Attending the Gynecological Outpatient Clinic at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Nutritional Status among Filipino Elderly: Prevalence and Correlates

Current ecology, not ancestral dispersal patterns, influences menopause symptom severity

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