ArticleJournal of diabetes investigation2019
Menstrual and reproductive factors and type 2 diabetes risk: The Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study.
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- Exploring the link between age at menarche, anthropometry and body fat composition with type II diabetes in a Singapore multi-ethnic cohort.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Association of age at menarche with type 2 diabetes mellitus among urban Indian women: results from the CARRS study.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Association of Parity with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Japan.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025Article
- Reproductive risk factors across the female lifecourse and later metabolic health.Cell metabolism · 2024Review
- Parity and incident type 2 diabetes in older Chinese women: Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Hemoglobin A1c Level Among Women Without Prior Diabetes Diagnosis in Rural Areas of Central South China: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of women's health · 2022Article
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- The association of parity/live birth number with incident type 2 diabetes among women: over 15 years of follow-up in The Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Menstrual and reproductive factors and type 2 diabetes risk: The Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2019Article
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introductionMenstrual and reproductive factors, including age at menarche, parity and breast-feeding, have been linked to type 2 diabetes risk. We prospectively investigated the association between these factors and type 2 diabetes risk in a large Japanese cohort. MATERIALS AND
methodsParticipants were 37,511 women aged 45-75 years who participated in the baseline (1990-1993), second (1995-1998) and third surveys (2000-2003) of the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study, and who had no history of diabetes at the second survey. Menstrual and reproductive history was ascertained using questionnaires at the baseline and second surveys. Odds ratios of self-reported, physician-diagnosed type 2 diabetes over the 5-year period from the second survey were estimated using logistic regression.
resultsAt the third survey, 513 new cases of type 2 diabetes were self-reported. The odds ratios of type 2 diabetes tended to increase with the number of parity, after adjustment for covariates other than body mass index (P for trend = 0.029). The multivariable-adjusted odds ratios of type 2 diabetes for women with three or more births was 1.56 (95% confidence interval 0.96-2.53) compared with those who were nulliparous. The association between parity and type 2 diabetes risk was attenuated after additional adjustment for body mass index (P for trend = 0.12). No factors other than parity were significantly associated with type 2 diabetes risk.
conclusionsHigher parity might be associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes among Japanese women, partly through increasing bodyweight.
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