Open AccessMenopause and the Metabolic Syndrome<subtitle>The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation</subtitle>
Author(s) -
İmke Janssen,
Lynda H. Powell,
Sybil Crawford,
Bill L. Lasley,
Kim Sutton-Tyrrell
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.168.14.1568
Subject(s) - menopause , medicine , metabolic syndrome , confidence interval , odds ratio , body mass index , national cholesterol education program , demography , gerontology , obesity , sociology
Cross-sectional studies suggest that prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) increases from premenopause to postmenopause in women, independent of age. Little is known about why. We hypothesized that the incidence of the MetS increases with progression through menopause and that this increase is explained by the progressive androgenicity of the hormonal milieu.
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