Women who go through the menopause before 46 are twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke

• The typical age to undergo the change of life is 51

By Claire Bates

Released: 15:42 GMT, 28 June 2012

Ladies who undergo menopause before age 46 are two times as likely to possess a stroke or heart attack as ladies who feel the change later in existence, research finds.

The findings from the diverse number of U.S. women support outcomes of earlier studies which had only centered on whitened women.

Early menopause was discovered to double the chance of stroke and cardiac arrest. Researchers stated an inherited outcomes of ovarian function and cardiovascular disease would be to blame

Lead author Dr Melissa Wellons, in the College of Alabama at Birmingham, stated ladies who had the change of life early should make extra efforts to lower their risk.

'My advice for them is always to get the traditional risks checked and do things that we all know, according to evidence, can enhance your chance of developing cardiovascular disease, like keep the cholesterol under control and your bloodstream pressure under control,A she stated.

Wellons and her co-workers collected health information through surveys of two,509 women, including 331 Chinese, 641 black and 550 Hispanic women.

Near to 700 of these, or 28 percent, choose to go through menopause early - before age 46. The typical age when women stop getting periods is 51 within the U.S and 52 within the United kingdom.

The more youthful group incorporated ladies who experienced menopause naturally or were built with a hysterectomy - surgery to get rid of the uterus - which could cause early menopause.

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No women had coronary disease at the outset of the research. Scientists monitored them for typically 5 years to determine who wound up getting a stroke or heart attack.

They found 23 from the ladies who choose to go through menopause early, and 27 who had not, experienced cardiac arrest or cardiac event or died from cardiovascular disease, based on findings released within the journal Menopause.

That means 3.3 percent of ladies in early menopause group and 1.five percent from the other group.

Similarly, 18 women - or 2.6 percent - from the early menopause group were built with a stroke throughout the research, in comparison to 19 (one percent) of ladies who hit menopause later.

It isn't obvious why early menopause may be associated with coronary disease. Some researchers have theorised that oestrogen could may play a role because the hormone drops following a change. However, a Women's Health Initiative study hormone alternative therapy was stopped early because women taking the body's hormones after menopause were really found to possess a greater chance of cardiovascular disease and certain cancer.

'It might be a genetic association, (where) genes that are based on ovarian function can also be connected with coronary disease, and individuals a couple of things are associated although not via a common causal path,' Dr Wellons added.

She stated more scientific studies are needed before doctors can understand how to intervene to try and lessen the greater cardiovascular disease risk among women with early menopause.

Cardiovascular disease may be the leading reason for dying among U.S. women. Coupled with strokes, it accounts for almost one out of three deaths, based on the Cdc and Prevention.