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Age at menarche is associated with prediabetes and diabetes in women (aged 32–81 years) from the general population: the KORA F4 Study
Doris Stöckla b c✉, Angela Döringb d, Annette Petersb e, Barbara Thorandb e, Margit Heierb e f g, Cornelia Huthb e, Heidi Stöcklh i, Wolfgang Rathmannj k, Bernd Kowallj k, Christa Meisingerb e f g
- aInstitute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany. doris.stoeckl@helmholtz-muenchen.de
- bGerman Research Center for Environmental Health
- cLudwig-Maximilians-University
- dInstitute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- eInstitute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, D-85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- fCentral Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg, Germany
- gCentral Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry
- hLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group, London, UK
- iLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group
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TL;DRAge at menarche seems to be inversely associated with prediabetes and diabetes independent of confounding factors including current BMI, and women at risk for diabetes might be identified by a history of young age atMenarche. (Semantic Scholar)