Younger women who are underweight may be more prone to early menopause

Posted January 19, 2018

Underweight women are at increased risk for early menopause, a new study has found.

This study, in Human Reproduction, followed 78,759 premenopausal women ages 25 to 42 beginning in 1989. Over the following 22 years, 2,804 of them reported natural menopause before age 45.

Read more from the NY Times, by Nicholas Bakalar, Younger women who are underweight may be more prone to early menopause