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Reproductive Risk Factors for Breast Cancer: A Case Control Study [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Breast cancer is second most important cancer among Indian women. Although risk factors are not much prevalent as in western countries, incidence rate is increasing in India.
Hiwarkar, PA, Kulkarni, PN, Meshram, II
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Postmenopausal Women With Greater Paracardial Fat Have More Coronary Artery Calcification Than Premenopausal Women: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) Cardiovascular Fat Ancillary Study. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundVolumes of paracardial adipose tissue (PAT) and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) are greater after menopause. Interestingly, PAT but not EAT is associated with estradiol decline, suggesting a potential role of menopause in PAT accumulation.
Budoff, Matthew J, El Khoudary, Samar R, Everson-Rose, Susan A, Janssen, Imke, Matthews, Karen A, Powell, Lynda H, Shields, Kelly J   +6 more
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The Interaction of Type II Diabetes and Gonadal Steroids on Cognition in Middle-Aged Women [PDF]

, 2019
Diabetes is not commonly thought to be a women’s health issue, however, it appears to have an association with increased cognitive impairment in women during menopause as compared to women without diabetes (Espeland et al., 2011).
Bates, Kara A
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Association of different inflammatory indices with risk of early natural menopause: a cross-sectional analysis of the NHANES 2013–2018

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundEarly natural menopause, characterized by the cessation of ovarian function before the age of 45, has been a subject of prior research indicating that inflammation may predict the onset of menopause.
Mengyu Zheng, Mengyu Zheng, Junying Li, Junying Li, Yushan Cao, Yushan Cao, Zhuo Bao, Zhuo Bao, Xing Dong, Xing Dong, Pei Zhang, Pei Zhang, Jinxiang Yan, Jinxiang Yan, Yixuan Liu, Yixuan Liu, Yongzhen Guo, Yongzhen Guo, Xianxu Zeng, Xianxu Zeng   +19 more
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Surgery-for-life:Aging, sexual fitness and self-management in Brazil [PDF]

, 2014
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on plastic surgery to explore tensions in aging norms and ideals for women in Brazil.  I situate my analysis in relation to debates about a “de-chronologized life course.”  Some scholars argue that the life ...
Edmonds, Alexander
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Cigarette smoking and age of menopause

Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences
Background and objective: To identify the effect of cigarette smoking on women's age of menopause. Earlier time at menopause increased women morbidity and mortality rates. Unhealthy lifestyle had a negative impact on women's age at menopause. Methods:
Ishraq Mahmood Shakir Imarah
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Effects of reproductive and demographic changes on breast cancer incidence in China: A modeling analysis [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Breast cancer incidence is currently low in China. However, the distribution of reproductive and lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer among Chinese women is changing rapidly.
Colditz, Graham A., Gao, Yu-Tang, Hesketh, Therese, Linos, Eleni, Linos, Katerina, Qu, Jian Ding, Rosner, Bernard A., Spanos, Demetri, Zheng, Wei   +8 more
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Relationships between intensity, duration, cumulative dose, and timing of smoking with age at menopause: A pooled analysis of individual data from 17 observational studies.

PLoS Medicine, 2018
BackgroundCigarette smoking is associated with earlier menopause, but the impact of being a former smoker and any dose-response relationships on the degree of smoking and age at menopause have been less clear.
Dongshan Zhu, Hsin-Fang Chung, Nirmala Pandeya, Annette J Dobson, Janet E Cade, Darren C Greenwood, Sybil L Crawford, Nancy E Avis, Ellen B Gold, Ellen S Mitchell, Nancy F Woods, Debra Anderson, Daniel E Brown, Lynnette L Sievert, Eric J Brunner, Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Kunihiko Hayashi, Jung Su Lee, Hideki Mizunuma, Graham G Giles, Fiona Bruinsma, Therese Tillin, Mette Kildevæld Simonsen, Mette Kildevæld Simonsen, Hans-Olov Adami, Elisabete Weiderpass, Marianne Canonico, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Panayotes Demakakos, Gita D Mishra   +30 more
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The Second Half of Life: Growing Older The Middle Years [PDF]

, 1990
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Beckham, Kathryn
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Premenopausal endogenous oestrogen levels and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Many of the established risk factors for breast cancer implicate circulating hormone levels in the aetiology of the disease. Increased levels of postmenopausal endogenous oestradiol (E2) have been found to increase the risk of breast cancer ...
AH Eliassen, C Frost, CR Rosenberg, D J Bratton, DJ Hand, DK Wysowski, EW Steyerberg, G Chene, HV Thomas, J Russo, JN Matthews, JP Costantino, JTCB Herjan, K Tanabe, K Walker, K Walker, KJ Helzlsouer, LJ Martin, M Kabuto, MC Pike, MH Gail, N Vasiljevic, R DerSimonian, R Kaaks, RC Travis, RF Galbraith, S Greenland, SA Missmer, The Endogenous Hormones and Breast cancer Collaborative Group, TJ Key   +29 more
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