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Abstract
A population study of women in Göteborg, Sweden was carried out in 1968–1969. Altogether
1462 women participated (participation rate 90.1%). Five age strata were studied:
38, 46, 50, 54 and 60 (women born in 1930, 1922, 1918, 1914 and 1908, respectively).
The same women were re-studied in 1974–1975. Information about menopausal state and,
in postmenopausal women, about menopausal age was obtained on both occasions. The
information given by the women in 1974–1975 agreed well with the information given
in 1968–1969. Very few women started to menstruate again, if the interval since the
last menstruation had been 6 mth or longer. The vast majority of the women had a spontaneous
menopause. The medians of menopausal age were found to be between 49 yr 7 mth (in
women born in 1908) and 50 yr 5 mth (in women born in 1918). There was a tendency
towards a continuously increased menopausal age with time as judged from women born
in 1908, 1914 and 1918, respectively, but women born in 1922 were found to have a
median menopausal age which was more similar to that of the women born in 1908 than
that of the women born in 1918. Our study has, thus, not supported the view that the
menopausal age is rapidly changing.
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Publication history
Accepted:
October 6,
1978
Received:
July 25,
1978
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© 1979 Published by Elsevier Inc.
