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A női nemi hormonok koncentrációja és a testzsírosság változókorú nőknél

Zsákai, Annamária

Biri, Beáta

Utczás, Katinka

Fehér, Virág Piroska

Bodzsár, Éva

Magyar Biológiai Társaság

2015

GN Anthropology / embertan, fizikai antropológia

QH3011 Biochemistry / biokémia

The relationship between sex hormonal
levels and body fatness in relation to reproductive ageing in women. The number of
postmenopausal women in our ageing societies is increasing, thus the importance of studies on
menopause and the risk factors of early and late menopause is increasing. The age at the final
menstrual period holds clinical and public health interest because the age at menopause can be a
marker of aging and health. In general the menopausal transition increases the risk of many
diseases, in addition to this health consequence of menopause it is also evidenced that women
undergoing early menopause have a higher incidence of osteoporotic fractures, cardiovascular
diseases, neurological diseases, psychiatric diseases, while women with late menopause are at
higher risk for breast and endometrial cancer. The purpose of the research was to study the
relationship between the menopausal status and the body fatness in Hungarian women.
A random sample of 1932 Hungarian women (aged 35+ years) was studied between 2012 and
2014. Body composition was estimated by body impedance analysis. Subjects were divided into
pre-, peri- and postmenopausal subgroups on the basis of their menstrual history and in a
subsample by considering the estradiol and progesterone levels in saliva. Women who had any
diseases or were taking any medications known to affect body composition, or who had been
hysterectomized or ovariectomized were not included in the present analysis.
The level of studied sex hormones showed a decrease from the early 40s. The body fat mass had an
increase until the late 50 years and then had a significant decrease through senescence.
Premenopausal women who were much older than the median age at menopause had significantly
higher amount of fat than their postmenopausal age-peers, while postmenopausal women, whose
permanent cessation of menstruation occurred much earlier than the median age at menopause,
had significantly less fat amount than their premenopausal age-peers. The body fat mass in
women, who were divided into the postmenopausal subgroup by their sex hormone levels but
experienced regular menstruations, was always above the age median value of their menopausal
status subgroups, while in women, who were considered premenopausal according to their sex
hormone levels but were amenorrheic at least for the past 12 months, below the age medians.

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Zsákai, Annamária and Biri, Beáta and Utczás, Katinka and Fehér, Virág Piroska and Bodzsár, Éva (2015) A női nemi hormonok koncentrációja és a testzsírosság változókorú nőknél. Anthropologiai Közlemények, 56. pp. 139-151. ISSN 0003-5440

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