Objective To present a comprehensive review of the association between measures of body
weight, waist, and fat, and different ratios of these measures, and the risk of type 2 diabetes …

Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global epidemic associated with
increased health expenditure, and low quality of life. Many non-genetic risk factors have …

Obesity has complex multifactorial aetiology. It has been suggested by many, but not all,
reports that earlier pubertal maturation may increase adult obesity risk. We conducted a …

How do exposures to stress affect biobehavioral development and, through it, psychiatric
and biomedical disorder? In the health sciences, the allostatic load model provides a widely …

Background Although the timing of menarche and menopause may be associated with
cardiovascular disease (CVD), the entire reproductive life span has not been considered …

To identify loci for age at menarche, we performed a meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide
association studies in 87,802 women of European descent, with replication in up to 14,731 …

OBJECTIVE Age at menopause is an important determinant of future health outcomes, but
little is known about its relationship with type 2 diabetes. We examined the associations of …

The vast amount of epidemiological evidence from three large US cohorts (Nurses' Health
Study, Nurses' Health Study 2, and Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study) has yielded …

Methods The following terms were searched with women and stroke in PubMed and Google
Scholar, mainly for original articles and metaanalysis/systematic reviews: estrogens …

Aims/hypothesis In this study, we aimed to examine the association between age at natural
menopause and risk of type 2 diabetes, and to assess whether this association is …