MENOPAUSE – INTRODUCTION
If it hasn’t, this spongy lining is no longer needed and is shed. This is the period, or monthly bleeding.
When a woman’s reproductive life first starts, many of the cycles are anovulatory. This means that no ovum is released. At the menopause, the same thing happens.
The menarche, or onset of the periods, is occurring at a younger age. This is believed to be due to better nutrition as girls seem to be growing taller, quicker and to be reaching sexual maturity earlier.
Recent research seems to indicate that women are going through menopause at a later age and these factors are extending the menstruating years. Studies in Australia and Britain show that the average age for menopause is just over 50.
The assumption that those who started their periods early finish late, and vice-versa, appears not to be true. It also appears that the age at which the first child is born and the number of children the woman has does not influence menopause.
As the average age of the start of the periods is just over 13, most women can expect a menstruating life of nearly 37 years.
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Posted on May 15th, 2009 by admin
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