The influence of the first menstrual cycle on health

Girls who received the first menstrual cycle before age 10 or after age 17 are more vulnerable to disease.

Do you remember how old were you when I got my first menstrual period? Well remember because that impact on personal health, according to a US study linked the girl’s age for the first menstrual cycle and between health and disease, specifically heart.

Girls who received the first menstrual cycle before age 10 or after age 17 are more likely to develop heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure issues related, according to a new study conducted by the University of Oxford.

If your ministry in the first session of the 13th of your age, it is age appropriate for your health, and through the study of more than a million women, this life cycle is to get in the future risk of heart disease, strokes, and high blood pressure.

At the same time, I got the first session before age 10 or after age 17, risk higher hospital admission or death, in addition to the risk of 27% to heart disease, and a rise of 16 percent on the stroke, and high risk 20 percent complications associated with high blood pressure.

This affects the age of first menstruation to obesity and weight gain. Obesity in children and adolescents significantly affected by age in which the girl was when access to the menstrual cycle.

You can certainly not the first monthly cycle control, but what you can do is to put health system, sound and moderate your own in order to take away from you morbidity and preventable risks.