Interestingly, the age of first menstruation is apparently the relates to when they entered menopause.
This was revealed from the results of the recent research was undertaken researchers of the University of Queensland. For this study, the researchers analyzed data from 51,450 menopausal women originating from the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Australia and Japan. Each is asked to report the age of first menstruation and the number of their children.
In General, 2 percent of respondents reported experiencing premature menopause and 7.6 percent experience premature menopause.
Premature menopause is when a woman stops menstruating before age 40 years, whereas women considered to be experiencing early menopause (early menopause) If you stop it in ages between 40-44 years.
But the researchers also found a number of the respondents who received her first menstruation before age 12 years and had no children. Researchers uncover, 5.2 percent of them experienced premature menopause and 9.9 percent reported early menopause.
That is, women of menstruating before age 12 even-numbered years and had no children had five times more likely to experience premature menopause. They also felt the risk of early menopause doubled.
The Chairman of the team of researchers, Gita Mishra said, both of these aspects are important indicators of a woman's reproductive health. However, during this time the Association both with women's health as a whole rarely get attention.
"We feel this study results could give us the opportunity to monitor and intervene if a woman is experiencing problems such as the failure of the function of the ovaries or menopause early," he said as reported Live Science.
"But since the data is based on the report of the independent, there is a possibility the respondent forget given the age of the first time of menstruation, so perhaps we should dig again about the link between genetic and environmental influences towards the age of first menstruation and then when the woman's menopause," She continued.