Going via menopause later could confer well being advantages, together with improved bone power, a decrease danger of coronary heart illness, and extra years earlier than different results of low estrogen, like reminiscence points, low libido, and diminished urinary management, kick in.
However analysis additionally exhibits that having extra menstrual cycles all through your lifetime might enhance your danger of sure cancers.
“Ladies who’ve a late menopause, after age 55, have a better danger of breast and uterine most cancers. It is because they’re uncovered to estrogen for an extended time, which might gasoline these cancers,” states Dr. Pinkerton. Their danger of ovarian most cancers can be a bit greater, probably as a result of they’ve had extra ovulation cycles.”
Throughout a girl’s menstrual cycle, her uterus and breast tissue have extra publicity to estrogen. And extra menstrual cycles all through a girl’s life means extra estrogen publicity, which might contribute to most cancers danger.
For instance, girls who begin their durations earlier than 11 years of age have a danger of breast most cancers that’s between 15 and 20 % greater than those that begin their durations at 15 years of age or greater.
And in a pooled evaluation of information from 400,000 girls, for yearly older a girl was when she she reached menopause, her breast most cancers went up by round 3 %.
Nevertheless, in accordance with one examine, the chance of gynecological cancers, equivalent to ovarian and cervical most cancers, will increase the sooner a girl begins to undergo menopause. Ladies who went via menopause on the common age (50 to 55 years) had the bottom most cancers dangers, whereas these with a better danger went via menopause of their thirties, which clinicians take into account to be irregular. Which means that different processes is likely to be contributing to elevated most cancers danger in cases of early ovarian insufficiency.
