RUDN Journal of Medicine (Mar 2011)

Early menopause influence on the development of metabolic syndrome

  • L V Kovalenko,
  • L D Belotserkovtseva,
  • E V Korneeva,
  • O J Sisanok

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 34 – 38

Abstract

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Deficiency of sex hormones at the age of 40 years promotes emotional, vegetative-vascular and metabolic manifestations of a few years prior to the physiological age of menopause. Investigation of 180 women with early menopause of different genesis revealed that 48,3% of them have had insulin resistance, which can be regarded as the main factor of development of metabolic syndrome.

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