Titre : | From menarche to menopause : Trends among US women born from 1912 to 1969. (2006) |
Auteurs : | Hazel-B NICHOLS ; EGAN (Kathleen-M) : USA. Vanderbilt University. Nashville. TN. ; John-M HAMPTON ; NEWCOMB (Polly-A) : USA. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Seattle. WA. ; TITUS-ERNSTOFF (Linda) : USA. Dartmouth Medical School. Lebanon. NH. ; TRENTHAM-DIETZ (Amy) : USA. Department of Population Health Sciences. University of Wisconsin. Madison. WI. ; WILLETT (Walter-C) : USA. Harvard School of Public Health. Boston. MA. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 164, n° 10, 2006) |
Pagination : | 1003-1011 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Femme ; Ménopause ; Homme ; Tendance séculaire ; Enquête cas témoin ; Epidémiologie ; Hormone ; Reproduction ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS X26lR0xy. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The authors investigated secular trends in age at menarche, age at menopause, and reproductive life span within a population-based cohort of US women. Study subjects were 22,774 women selected randomly as controls for a case-control study. Eligible controls were residents of Wisconsin, Massachusetts, or New Hampshire born between 1910 and 1969. Subjects completed telephone interviews in 1988-2001 and answered questions regarding reproductive and lifestyle factors. Birth cohorts were created using 5-and 10-year periods, and statistical comparisons were performed with analysis of variance. The mean age at menarche decreased by approximately 6 months for those born between 1910 and 1949 (13.1 vs. 12.7 years ; p |