Reason women for smoking and stop smoking related to women health
Study published by the journal Menopause that summarizes data from several previous studies that included about 6,000 women in the United States, Poland, Turkey, and Iran.
In general, women who do not smoke menoupause entering a period when he was 46 to 51 years.
But according to most studies, women smokers will experience menopause at a younger age is 43 to 50 years.
During menopause, the ovaries of women will stop producing eggs and so the woman can not get pregnant again.
"Our results show stronger evidence about the effect of smoking on early menopause and it became the basis for urging the women to stop their smoking habit," said study author, Volodymyr Dvornyk, which comes from the University of Hong Kong.
Dvornyck and colleagues also analyzed five other studies that cut the age range age group 50 or 51 years as a group of women beginning menopause and late menopause. More than 43,000 women analyzed, 43 percent women smokers are more likely experience menopause earlier.
Early menopause and late menopause are both associated with health problems. Women with late menopause is associated with the risk of getting breast cancer is greater as a risk factor for the disease is due to excess estrogen.
"The general consensus concluded that early menopause associated with greater risk for some health problems such as post-menopausal osteoporosis, a disease associated blood vessels, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's, and others," said Dvornyk told Reuters Health via email.
In general, he added, early menopause also potentially increase the risk of death over a few years after her experience.
There are two theories that set out the reasons that smoking is the same as early menopause, says Jennie Kline, an epidemiologist from the School of Public Health at New York University's Mailman.
Smoking affects how the body to produce or dispose of the hormone estrogen. On the other hand, some researchers believe that certain components of tobacco is also potentially kill the egg, says Kline, who was not involved in the study.
Dvornyk and colleagues did not have information about how long the women who had researched the number of cigarettes smoked or they suck every day, so the researchers could not determine how these factors affect age at menopause.
There are several reasons why women smoke:
- smoking can reduce tension and stress.
- can be relaxed
- was as strong as men
- friendship
- in order to receive group
- as seen on TV ads and posters, also see the promotion of smoking through a stage show of music, sports and social activities.
- once offered free cigarette samples.
For that reason and the lack of data about health and lifestyle factors associated with menopause, the analysis made possible not enough to answer questions about how smoking affects the menopause.
"Yet still many other reasons to stop smoking than fear of menopause," said Kline.
Alcohol, body weight and whether the woman gave birth to also determine when they reach menopause, but the evidence which affect menopause but it jumbled cigarettes, said Kline.
It is possible also that the factors that affect age of menopause also affect female fertility or how late they can get pregnant.
