RUDN Journal of Medicine (Mar 2011)
Early menopause influence on the development of metabolic syndrome
Abstract
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.