Academic Editor: Brian Tomlinson
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