Open AccessIs It All Determined at Menarche?
Author(s) -
Renate B. Schnabel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.114.013736
Subject(s) - menarche , medicine , menopause , demography , psychological intervention , gynecology , gerontology , endocrinology , sociology , psychiatry
Menstrual and reproductive factors may help us understand the female advantage in common cardiovascular lifetime diseases with an obvious protection during the reproductive period. Important developmental and hormonal transitions during a woman’s life are menarche and menopause. Menarche occurs late in pubertal development as an indicator of the beginning of the reproductive period.
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