ArticleThe Journal of nutrition2013
Consumption of low-fat dairy products may delay natural menopause.
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- Current Evidence on Associations of Nutritional Factors with Ovarian Reserve and Timing of Menopause: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Pooled it
- Habitual dietary lactose and galactose intakes in association with age at menopause in non-galactosemic women.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Association Between Protein-Rich Foods, Nutritional Supplements, and Age of Natural Menopause and Its Symptoms.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Skimmed milk intake reduces the risk of ER- breast cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis.Discover oncology · 2024Article
- Association between Healthy Eating Index-2015 total and component food scores with reproductive lifespan among postmenopausal women: a population-based study from NHANES 2005-2016.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Healthy eating index and risk of diminished ovarian reserve: a case-control study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Micronutrients intake and genetic variants associated with premature ovarian insufficiency; MASHAD cohort study.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- The Role of Lifestyle and Dietary Factors in the Development of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Ultraviolet radiation and age at natural menopause in a nationwide, prospective US cohort.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Serum metabolomics study of the association between dairy intake and the anti-müllerian hormone annual decline rate.Nutrition & metabolism · 2021Article
- Dairy, soy, and risk of breast cancer: those confounded milks.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Do dietary intakes influence the rate of decline in anti-Mullerian hormone among eumenorrheic women? A population-based prospective investigation.Nutrition journal · 2019Article
- A Prospective Study of Dairy-Food Intake and Early Menopause.American journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Menstrual Cycle Characteristics in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Are Associated With Risk of Early Natural Menopause.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2018Article
- Vitamin D Status Is Not Associated with Risk of Early Menopause.The Journal of nutrition · 2018Article
- Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Early Natural Menopause.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Dietary Protein Intake and Early Menopause in the Nurses' Health Study II.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Vitamin D and calcium intake and risk of early menopause.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Article
- Dairy Food Intake Is Associated with Reproductive Hormones and Sporadic Anovulation among Healthy Premenopausal Women.The Journal of nutrition · 2017Article
- Milk Consumption after Age 9 Years Does Not Predict Age at Menarche.The Journal of nutrition · 2015Article
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Abstract
Later menopause is a risk factor for breast and endometrial cancer, yet few studies have investigated dietary predictors of this potentially modifiable event. In particular, dairy contains hormones and growth factors that could potentially affect menopausal timing. We therefore assessed the association between regular consumption of dairy foods and related nutrients and age at natural menopause. We conducted a prospective analysis with up to 20 y of follow-up in 46,059 participants in the Nurses' Health Study who were premenopausal in 1980. We observed 30,816 events of natural menopause over 401,754 person-years. In the total population, the estimated mean age at natural menopause was 51.5 y for women who consumed no low-fat dairy and 51.5, 51.6, 51.7, and 51.8 y for women who consumed 0.1-1.0, 1.1-2.0, 2.1-3.0, and >3 servings of low-fat dairy daily, respectively. Premenopausal women <51 y of age consuming >3 servings of low-fat dairy per day were 14% less likely (HR: 0.86; 95% CI: 0.77, 0.96; P-trend < 0.0001) to report natural menopause in the next month relative to those consuming 0.1-1 servings/d. Similar results were obtained for skim milk (for >6 servings/wk vs. 0-1 servings/mo: HR: 0.93; 95% CI: 0.89, 0.97; P-trend < 0.0001) but not for total high-fat dairy or whole milk. Dairy foods were not associated with age at menopause among women ≥51 y of age. These findings support the growing body of literature on the hormonally active nature of milk and dairy foods.
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