The timing of your first period offers important clues about your hormonal health and future fertility. Whether menarche occurs early or late, it may indicate underlying hormonal health, affecting ...

Menarche is the onset of physiological events culminating in reproductive capability in females, as demonstrated by menstruation. It is among the later events of puberty. Typically, girls are between ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Age of menarche may provide several insights on long-term cardiometabolic and reproductive health, a Brazilian cohort study indicated. Among 7,623 women, early age of menarche (<10 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Age at menarche has fallen from a mean of 12.5 years to 11.9 years from 1950 to 2005. BMI at time of menarche ...

Menstruation is a critical indicator of health. Whether and when someone with a uterus gets their period — for the first time, and throughout their life — can reflect not only their reproductive ...

Women's Health. 2009;5(2):175-190. Since socioeconomic circumstances often act as proxies for many factors, including the quality and quantity of food intake, energy expenditure, family structure and ...

Household instability, including divorce, conflict, and absent fathers, contributes to early menarche. Source: Engin_Akyurt / pixabay Girls are menstruating earlier and earlier. From 1840 to the 1990s ...

Menarche is the onset of menstruation, marking a girl’s first menstrual period and the beginning of her reproductive years. Typically occurring between ages 9 and 16, menarche signals the body's ...