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Menopause Not Linked To Diabetes Risk
Wed, 27 Jul 2011
A new study has revealed that menopause has little or no effect on a woman's risk of developing diabetes.

Researchers from the University of Michigan in the US analysed data from a national clinical trial involving 1,237 women, aged 40 to 65 years, who were all at high risk of type 2 diabetes.

Previous research has suggested that menopause would accelerate the progression to diabetes because post-menopausal women have relatively higher levels of the hormone testosterone, which is considered a risk factor for metabolic disease .

But findings from the new study showed that postmenopausal women had no higher risk for diabetes whether they experienced natural menopause or had their ovaries removed.

For every year 100 women observed, 11.8 premenopausal women developed diabetes, compared to 10.5 among women in natural menopause and 12.9 cases among women whose ovaries had been taken out.

Dr Catherine Kim, associate professor of internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Health System and lead author of the study, said: "In our study, menopause had no additional effect on risk for diabetes."

"Menopause is one of many small steps in aging and it doesn't mean women's health will be worse after going through this transition."
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