Smoking and The Potential of Menopause
Women who smoke are likely to begin to enter menopause phase before the age 45 and also make them face the risk of osteoporosis and heart attacks, for the smoking addict, the risk of early menopause is nearly doubled. However, women who used to smoked, but stopped at least 10 years before menopause, basically seems can’t stop menstruating compared with the smokers before the age of 45.
There is evidence that smoking later on in life makes a woman is more likely to experience early menopause, while the smokers who are quit before reach the middle age may not be affected. They examine further relationship and determine whether become a passive smoker may also affect the time of menopause.
The researchers found that nearly 10% of women enter menopause before the age of 45. As much as 25% were smokers currently, 28.7% were former smokers and 35.2% reported as passive smokers currently. Current smokers were 59% more likely to enter menopause before reach the age of 45, while early menopause almost two times more common among women who smoked the most.
But for the women who had quit smoking at least a decade before menopause is 87% more likely compare to others who smoked currently and had entered early menopause. Compared to married women, the widowers also face an increased risk of early menopause, as well as women who said that their health condition is worse. Educated women less likely to enter early menopause, but they are also less likely to be a smoker.