Women who smoke are almost 60% more probable to have an early menopause...

At Ukmedix News we have seen research which was done in Norway at the University of Oslo that shows that women who smoke are almost 60% more probable to have an early menopause when compared to women who do not smoke. An early menopause is a rare condition in which a woman to loses the ability to have children at an early age. If a woman goes through her menopause at an age of 45 or earlier it is considered to be an early menopause. Going through an early menopause also puts women at a bigger risk of developing heart disease and osteoporosis.

The lead researcher Dr Mikkelsen looked at well over 2,000 women and saw a definite correlation between smoking and early menopause. The results also showed that the women who smoked the largest amount of cigarettes were at a much higher risk of suffering from the early menopause. The researchers also noted that women who had been smoking but gave up the habit at least a decade before menopause were significantly less likely than women who continued to smoke to suffer from early menopause.

At Ukmedix News we have noted that many research projects show that it is especially harmful for people to smoke in their thirties and forties and even more so when they get even older. When the body starts to age the last thing that it needs is smoking to accelerate the process and to put the body under more pressure.

The researchers also looked at whether other lifestyle factors could affect early menopause and saw that both coffee and alcohol had absolutely no affect on it. They also noted that a good social life had a possible good impact on the health of a woman and reduce the risk of early menopause, however without a doubt the best thing that a woman could do to reduce the chances of her having an early menopause is to give up smoking.