SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
A Systematic Literature Review of Factors Affecting the Timing of Menarche: The Potential for Climate Change to Impact Women's Health.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.
- Age at menarche in South Asia: an interplay of sociodemographic, nutritional, lifestyle, anthropometric, biological, and environmental factors-a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Pubertal disorders in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a systemic review.Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM · 2025Pooled it
- Assessment of the differences in Mean Age at Menarche (MAM) among adolescent girls in rural and urban Nigeria: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Climate change and gendered vulnerability: A systematic review of women's health.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
- Spatiotemporal Patterns of Age at Menarche or Spermarche in Chinese Children and Adolescents and Socioeconomic and Environmental Determinants: Findings from a Series of Nation-Wide Surveys, 1995 to 2019.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Age at menarche association with metabolic, reproductive, and sociodemographic factors: a population-based cross-sectional analysis using an outcome-wide framework in Geneva, Switzerland.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Early-life exposure to ambient temperature and polycystic ovary syndrome: a nationwide cohort study.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Age at menarche and general and abdominal obesity in older Brazilian women: ELSI-Brazil.Revista de saude publica · 2026Article
- Age at menarche and blood pressure in late adolescence: the role of body adiposity in a Brazilian birth cohort.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Age at menarche and chronological age as explanatory factors of BMI: a cross-sectional study among Peruvian adolescents.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Factors Related to Curve Progression in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Girls at Skeletal Maturity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Bioarcheological Perspectives on the Timing of Adolescence in Rural Avar-Age Austria, 7th-9th Centuries ce.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Navigating parenthood in a climate change era: determinants of childbearing intentions in Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Women, Girls, and the Climate Crisis: Advancing Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender Equality in Climate Policies at ICPD+30.Studies in family planning · 2025Article
- The hippo pathway: a molecular bridge between environmental cues and pace of life.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Ramadan During Pregnancy and Offspring Age at Menarche in Indonesia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Eco-fertility: examining the climate change-total fertility rate nexus in the context of sustainable developmental goals in a systematic review approach.Medical review (2021) · 2025Review
- Understanding age at menarche: Environmental and demographic influences over a quarter century in India.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Early menarche and current nutritional status of the adolescents from a birth cohort.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025Article
- The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Review
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Abstract
Menarche is the first occurrence of a woman's menstruation, an event that symbolizes reproductive capacity and the transition from childhood into womanhood. The global average age for menarche is 12 years and this has been declining in recent years. Many factors that affect the timing menarche in girls could be affected by climate change. A systematic literature review was performed regarding the timing of menarche and four publication databases were interrogated: EMBASE, SCOPUS, PubMed, and Cochrane Reviews. Themes were identified from 112 articles and related to environmental causes of perturbations in menarche (either early or late), disease causes and consequences of perturbations, and social causes and consequences. Research from climatology was incorporated to describe how climate change events, including increased hurricanes, avalanches/mudslides/landslides, and extreme weather events could alter the age of menarche by disrupting food availability or via increased toxin/pollutant release. Overall, our review revealed that these perturbations in the timing of menarche are likely to increase the disease burden for women in four key areas: mental health, fertility-related conditions, cardiovascular disease, and bone health. In summary, the climate does have the potential to impact women's health through perturbation in the timing of menarche and this, in turn, will affect women's risk of disease in future.
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