Reproductive factors also appear to influence both the onset of menopause and the incidence of menopausal symptoms.
In menopausal women, the onset of menopause and rapid estrogen withdrawal leads to osteoporotic fractures.
The average age at the onset of menopause is 51, but some women start much earlier.
Smoking is already suspected of hastening the onset of menopause in some smokers.
Taken in the short term, during the onset of menopause, it offers relief from hot flashes and other symptoms.
"Would hormone replacement therapy possibly be more effective if it was initiated at the onset of menopause?" Dr. Nabel asked.
Samantha frets about the onset of menopause, and doses herself with hormones and lotions.
In women, dramatic shifts in hormone production lead to the onset of menopause.
We should be studying women who start to take estrogen at the onset of menopause, when a woman's natural estrogen declines.
Women are much more likely to have hot flushes when they have a sudden onset of menopause.
Richard Evans, a senior research analyst at Bernstein, said that while most women would avoid the long-term therapy that once drove sales, demand will grow at about the same rate that women turn 50, the average onset of menopause.
