Impact of menarche age on the near-term and long-term obesity of adult females.
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2019.02.004
- VernacularTitle:月经初潮年龄对女性成年后近期和远期肥胖的影响
- Author:
X L WEI
1
;
Y J HUA
1
;
Y LU
1
;
Y H HU
1
;
Z BIAN
2
;
Y GUO
2
;
Z M CHEN
3
;
L M LI
4
Author Information
1. Department of Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Suzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Suzhou 215004, China.
2. Project Office of the China Kadoorie Biobank, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China.
3. Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom.
4. School of Public Health, Peking. University, Beijng 100191, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Interaction;
Menarche age;
Obesity
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Adult;
Age Factors;
China/epidemiology*;
Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiology*;
Female;
Humans;
Menarche;
Obesity/epidemiology*;
Risk Factors
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2019;40(2):142-146
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective: To study the relationship between the age of menarche and the near-term/long-term obesity in adult women. Methods: We analyzed the baseline data of 30 895 women with complete data on menarche and body measurement that was from the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study from 2004 to 2008. The age of menarche was divided into three groups: ≤12, 13-16 and ≥17 years old. Prematurity was set at age ≤12 years. Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze the effects of menarche age on the near/long-term obesity in female adults. Results: The average menarche age of respondent appeared as (15.64±1.92) years old, with prematurity number as 1 421, accounting for 4.6% of the total numbers. Regarding the postponing of dates of birth, the age of menarche in women showed an advancing tendency. Among all the adult women under study, 803 developed near-term obesity, with the prevalence as 2.6%, while the number of long-term obesity was 3 738, accounting for 12.1%. Refining factors of age, lifestyle, menopausal status, hypertension and diabetes showed that the menarche age was related to the risks of both short-term and long-term obesity in women and the ORs (95%CI) were 2.45 (1.74-3.45) and 1.99 (1.69-2.34), respectively. There was no multiplicative interaction shown between the menarche age and menopausal status on long-term obesity (P=0.324). Conclusion: Premature menarche appeared a risk factor for near-term/long-term obesity in adult females.
