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HEALTH - O woman, try to remember when the first menstruation? Maybe nobody answered before or during a dozen years. Interestingly, age haidpertama times can give 'code' health conditions adulthood.
Medically, women experience menstrual time of 9-14 years in the category of normal, as said Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecologists of the Center for Sexual Health & Education, Maureen Whelihan.
When, at the age of menstruation occurred more than 14 years and less than 16 years without any problems meant it was also not a problem.
Data from the Susan G. Komen Foundation reveal that women menstruation before 12 years, the risk of breast cancer is greater. Their data showed that women menstruation before 12 years, the risk of breast cancer is 20 percent greater than that of menstruation after age 14 years.
"This could be due to exposure to estrogen for longer in life, so the risk (breast cancer) is greater," said Whelihan response to the study's results citing Glamour.
Then, what if menstruation occurs in the late teens? According to the journal Circulation, menstruating women above 17 years of end of the risk of heart disease. Risk no fun being equivalent to occur in women who jaid first time before 10 years.
In the journal also written, women who are too fast or slow period, 27 percent are at risk to be hospitalized or die from heart disease. Then there's the 20 percent of participants who died from complications of high blood pressure.
"It's all because of estrogen," says Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecologists of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Jessica Shepherd.
For those who menstruate at the age of late teens, there are advantages as well. Shepherd reveal decreased risk of ovarian cancer. "Every time of ovulation, the change of ovarian tissue, which increases the chance appearance of the tumor," says Shepperd.
However, doctors have warned, not menstrual age that determines our health. There are many factors other than age at first menstruation trigger heart disease, breast cancer or ovarian cancer. Most important to remember to keep them healthy by eating a balanced diet, regular exercise, and not smoking
