Diabetes Risk Not Linked to Menopause Timing or Type
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Women aged younger than 45 years who experience menopause are at a higher risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.However, despite such diabetes-related risk factors as increased fat and insulin resistance occurring during menopause, a new large-scale study found no autonomous relationship between age or type of menopause and the onset of diabetes.
Study results are published in the article “Timing and type of menopause are not risk factors for the onset of diabetes: a UK Biobank cohort study,“ online in Menopause.
Natural menopause and menopause with a surgical cause have been associated with a higher risk of alterations in glucose metabolism in postmenopause. That led many researchers to theorize that early onset (women aged 40-45 years) or premature (women aged < 40 years) menopause would increase a woman’s risk of type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
However,a new large-scale study analyzed nearly 147,000 women over a mean follow-up of 14.5 years and concluded that there was no independent or clinically meaningful relationship between age or type of menopause and the onset of diabetes.
The mean age of women in the study was 60 years, and more than ha
Journal details: Menopause
Jose Antonio Quesada, et al. Timing and type of menopause are not risk factors for the onset of diabetes: a UK Biobank cohort study, Menopause (2026). DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000002720
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