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What Is The Mean Age For Menopause?

Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2015

Question: At almost 47 would I be likely considered in the late reproductive stage or perimenopausal?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Muhammad Sareer Khalil (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Menopause is determined genetically

Detailed Answer:
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Menarche and menopause timelines are determined genetically. The mean age for menopause is usually 51. Women who get early menarche have early menopause and those with menarche late can continue to bleed normally in cyclic pattern into their early 50's. perimenopause is the period shortly before the occurrence of the menopause. So its basically a retrospective diagnosis. Amenorrhea along with elevated gonadotropins can be used to determine diagnosis.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Muhammad Sareer Khalil (3 hours later)

When you say menopause is determined genetically do you mean the age and or the symptoms or both. I have heard this before. My mother had her final period at 48.5. So I will likely follow that pattern then?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Muhammad Sareer Khalil (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Explained

Detailed Answer:
Hello.

I mean the age. Symptoms can vary individually. Some may get more hot flashes. Others more of vaginal dryness, dyspareunia or osteoporosis. Yes its likely that you follow the same pattern. However your grand mother on your father and mother's side and other further up the tree generations also have an imprint on your genes. Factors such as smoking, high altitude, hysterectomy, auto immune disorders, medications like chemotherapeutic agents can also lower the age of physiologic menopause.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar