Womens Health Blog

Majority of women experience menopause between the age of forty-five to fifty-five years. Factors that influence the age of menopause include:

1. Cigarette smoking: This has been identified as one of the major factors that affects the age of menopause. Women who smoke or have been smokers in the past are likely to experience menopause about one and a half to two years earlier.
   1. Nutritional status: Women with poor nutritional status experience early menopause.
   2. Body fat: Estrogen production is influenced by the body fat. This is why thin women experience menopause earlier as compared to obese women.
   3. Hereditary: Some studies have indicated that mothers and daughters tend to experience menopause at the same age. However, more studies are needed to determine if genetics is a key factor in determining the age of menopause.
   4. High altitude: Women living in high altitude are more likely to experience early menopause. Use of oral contraceptives, sociol-economic conditions, marriage, height, number of children, and the age of onset of menstruation do not influence the age of menopause.

Menopause brings about physiological as well as anatomical changes in a female’s body. That is one of the reasons that girls breasts are different than post-menopausal women. Some women may need to wear open bra that makes it a more suitable option for them but young girls feel fine in the teenage bras. Any occurrence of breast cancer while a women has already started showing menopausal symptoms, involves a combination of hormonal therapy, radiotherapy and surgery.

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