Titre : | Association of Low Age at Menarche with Increased All-Cause Mortality : A 37-Year Follow-up of 61,319 Norwegian Women. (2007) |
Auteurs : | JACOBSEN (Bjarne-K) : NOR. Institute of Community Medicine. University of Tromso. Tromso. ; HEUCH (Ivar) : NOR. Department of Mathematics. University of Bergen. Bergen. ; KVALE (Gunnar) : NOR. Center for International Health. University of Bergen. Bergen. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 166, n° 12, 2007) |
Pagination : | 1431-1437 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Association ; Age ; Femme ; Facteur ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Norvège ; Homme ; Etude prospective ; Puberté ; Europe |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xGp35x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Little is known about the impact of age at menarche on later mortality. In a cohort of 61,319 Norwegian women interviewed in 1956-1959, the authors analyzed associations between age at menarche and all-cause mortality. A total of 36,114 women died during the 37 years of follow-up. An inverse association was found between age at menarche and the all-cause mortality rate (p |