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Developing type 1 diabetes (T1D) in childhood was significantly associated with a shorter opportunity for childbearing, a new study showed.
Women diagnosed with T1D in childhood had an average 2.5 fewer reproductive years compared with their nondiabetic counterparts (95% CI -3.6 to -1.5,
P 0.0001), reported Tina Costacou, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues.
Shortening of the reproductive window occurred on both sides, the researchers wrote in
Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Specifically, women with T1D were an average 0.5 years older at the time of menarche and tended to be younger at the time of natural menopause onset, by 2 years on average. This was following adjustment for age, race, BMI, smoking status, hypertension, HDL cholesterol levels, history of oral contraceptives, and number of pregnancies.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 3, 2021) The length of the female reproductive period (the time from the onset of menses to the final menstrual period) has important health implications. A new study compared the length of reproductive periods for women with type 1 diabetes with women without diabetes to confirm the effect diabetes has on the female reproductive system. Study results are published online today in
Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Insulin plays a key role in regulating female reproductive function, and previous studies have shown the effect of insulin deficiency on a woman s reproductive system. Until now, however, little was known about the effect of type 1 diabetes on the age of natural menopause.
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PITTSBURGH, March 3, 2021 - Women who experience an accelerated accumulation of abdominal fat during menopause are at greater risk of heart disease, even if their weight stays steady, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health-led analysis published today in the journal
Menopause.
The study based on a quarter century of data collected on hundreds of women suggests that measuring waist circumference during preventive health care appointments for midlife women could be an early indicator of heart disease risk beyond the widely used body mass index (BMI) which is a calculation of weight vs. height. We need to shift gears on how we think about heart disease risk in women, particularly as they approach and go through menopause, said senior author Samar El Khoudary, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health. Our research is increasingly showing that it isn t so important how much fat a w
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Hot flashes are the bane of many women who are going through the menopause transition, so researchers have put a lot of effort into trying to understand what might quell them.
Hot flashes, along with night sweats and cold sweats, make up what researchers term vasomotor symptoms (VMS). The biological cause is hormone fluctuations, including dropping estrogen levels and increased amounts of follicular stimulating hormone (FSH) during this time. Hormone therapy is the primary treatment for VMS.
PLoS One on January 27, 2021, aims to examine whether certain types of social support might alleviate that stress and therefore help the flashes and sweats.