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SUBMITTER: Muka T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6448832 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Muka Taulant T Asllanaj Eralda E Avazverdi Naim N Jaspers Loes L Stringa Najada N Milic Jelena J Ligthart Symen S Ikram M Arfan MA Laven Joop S E JSE Kavousi Maryam M Dehghan Abbas A Franco Oscar H OH
Diabetologia 20170718 10
<h4>Aims/hypothesis</h4>In this study, we aimed to examine the association between age at natural menopause and risk of type 2 diabetes, and to assess whether this association is independent of potential mediators.<h4>Methods</h4>We included 3639 postmenopausal women from the prospective, population-based Rotterdam Study. Age at natural menopause was self-reported retrospectively and was treated as a continuous variable and in categories (premature, <40 years; early, 40-44 years; normal, 45-55 y ...[more]