Trends in Age at Natural Menopause and Reproductive Life Span Among US Women, 1959-2018
Duke Appiah, Chike C. Nwabuo, Imo Ebong, Melissa Wellons, Stephen J. Winters
Abstract
This national survey study uses the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to describe trends in age at natural menopause, age at menarche, and reproductive life span, and variables associated with shorter and longer spans, among US women between 1959-1962 and 2015-2018.
Topics & Concepts
National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyMedicineMenarcheMenopauseLife spanHealth statisticsDemographyGerontologyFertilityGynecologyEnvironmental healthPopulationInternal medicineSociologyMenopause: Health Impacts and TreatmentsEndometriosis Research and TreatmentPhytoestrogen effects and research