IMR Press / RCM / Volume 23 / Issue 7 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2307221
Open Access Original Research
Association between Age at Menarche and Hyperhomocysteinemia among Women in Hunan, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
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1 First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, 410000 Changsha, Hunan, China
2 Key Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Hunan Province, 410000 Changsha, Hunan, China
*Correspondence: xiuqinhong0528@hunnu.edu.cn (Xiuqin Hong)
Academic Editor: Brian Tomlinson
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2022, 23(7), 221; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2307221
Submitted: 5 March 2022 | Revised: 12 May 2022 | Accepted: 19 May 2022 | Published: 24 June 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heart Health and Aging)
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: We aim to examine the relationship between age at menarche and hyperhomocysteinemia in women in Hunan Province. Methods: Participants were required to complete a questionnaire that included age at menarche, lifestyle habits, other baseline information, and blood biochemical parameters in a cross-sectional study. The association between hyperhomocysteinemia and age at menarche was examined by Multivariable adjusted logistic regression. Results: A cohort of 2008 women with a mean age of 60.11 years (aged from 18.0 to 88.0 years) was included in this study. After adjustment for confounding factors such as age, the results showed that the risk of hyperhomocysteinemia among women whose age at menarche were over 16 years was 2.543 (1.849, 3.469) times higher than the risk among women whose age at atmenarche were less than 14 years, and 2.656 (1.882, 3.748) times more likely to have hypertension than women with menarche at 14 years. Besides, the odds ratios of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and obesity were elevated in women older than 16 years of age at menarche (OR = 1.924, p < 0.001; OR = 1.491, p = 0.014; OR = 1.670, p = 0.022). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that late menarche tends to be associated with a high risk of hyperhomocysteinemia and its associated set of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and obesity in women in Hunan, China. This association tends to differ across birth cohorts. Therefore, adequate attention of menarcheal age may be able to predict diseases in elderly females.

Keywords
age at menarche
hyperhomocysteinemia
hypertension
cardiovascular disease
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