Smoker Women; Beware of an early Menopause

May 09 2009

Posted by admin as Women's Health

women smoker Smoking women have great possibility to sooner get into a menopause before the age of 45 and are also strongly risky to come down with osteoporosis and heart attack, this is what is reported by some Norwegian researchers.

“Among 2,123 women aged 59 up to 60 years, who at present smoke, 59 % are likelier to suffer from an early menopause compared to those who don’t smoke”, said Dr. Thea F Mikkelsen from University of Oslo and his partner.

For the heaviest smokers, risk of coming down with menopause almost doubles. However, the women who used to smoke but have desist from smoking at least 10 years before menopause, basically are less likely to stop menstruating compared to the smokers before the age of 45.

“There is a proof that smoking late in life makes women likelier to suffer from an early menopause, whereas the smokers that stop before middle- age might not be influenced”, said Mikkelsen and his team in Online Journal, BMC, Public Health.

They examine a further relationship and stipulate whether being a passive smoker also influences a period of menopause. The researchers find out that almost 10% of women enter menopause before the age of 45.

As many as 25% are current smokers, 28,7% are ex-smokers and 35,2% are reported to be current passive smokers. Current smokers are 59% likelier to enter menopause before the age of 45, meanwhile the early menopause is almost twice commoner among the women that smoke the most.

Nonetheless, the women that have cut off smoking at least a decade before menopause are 87% likelier compared to their fellow smokers that currently smoke and have entered an early menopause.

Compared to married women, widows also face increasing risks of an early menopause, also like women saying that their health conditions are bad. More educated women are less likely to enter an early menopause, yet they are also less likely to be smokers.

The involvements in social activities also lessen risks of an early menopause. Researchers don’t find the relationship between coffee or alcohol consumption or passive smokers with risks of early menopause.

The faster women stop smoking, “said Mikkelsen and his team”, the more protection they get in relation to the coming of an early menopause.