According to a research, the age a woman gets her first period can predict her risk of having a heart disease.
The researchers led by Dr. Dexter Canoy of the University of Oxford in the U.K studied health data for more than one million U.K. women ages 50 to 64, including reproductive and medical history and national data on deaths and hospitalizations over the subsequent decade.
According to the research, women who begin menstruating before age 10 or after age 17 may have a higher risk of heart disease, stroke or high blood pressure while women who had their first period at age 13 had the lowest risk.
Dr. Dexter Canoy also confirmed menarche, the onset of first full menstrual cycle, tends to occur earlier in obese children, so the link between earlier periods and later heart disease risk was expected.
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