Reproductive Correlates of Natural Age at Menopause

A Study on the Minyong of Arunachal Pradesh

Bibliographic Data

ID19003150
AuthorsM Sharma (0000-0002-6674-9386, Dibrugarh University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume19
Issue1
Pages102-111
Publication date2019-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Oriental Anthropologist A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0972-558X • E-ISSN: 0976-3430
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0972558x19835386
OpenAlexW2948390742
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

This cross-sectional study attempts to determine the median age at menopause of 154 ever-married menopausal women belonging to the Minyong tribal community of Arunachal Pradesh. The study further attempts to see whether there is any significant association between age at menopause and the reproductive variables. The results of this study reject the association between age at menarche and menopause. Cox univariate regression of proportional risks analysis shows that the age at menopause is significantly related with age at marriage, nature of lifetime menstrual cycle, length between consecutive menstrual cycles, parity, age at last delivery, and postpartum amenorrhea (PPA). A less-studied variable, PPA, is undertaken, and a significant association is observed between the duration of PPA and the age at natural menopause. Multiparous women and later age at last delivery reported late age at natural menopause

Amenorrhea · Biology · Environmental health · Family planning · Gynecology · Menarche · Menopause · Menstruation · Multivariate analysis · Natural fertility · Obstetrics · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Surgical Menopause · Univariate analysis · Demography · Medicine · Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments · Ovarian function and disorders · Reproductive Physiology in Livestock · Internal Medicine

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