Age, type of menopause not associated with diabetes onset

There is no direct relationship between diabetes and the timing and type of menopause, and it is instead affected by lifestyle factors, according to recent research published in Menopause. This contradicts previous research, which found a 4% lower risk of diabetes for each additional year before the onset of menopause.

A team of researchers, including corresponding author Jose Antonio Quesada, Ph.D., Miguel Hernandez University, in Alicante, Spain, used data from the UK Biobank database, which contains health data for 502,129 volunteer participants, ages 40 and older, living in the UK at the time of enrollment.

They identified 146,764 menopausal women, followed them for more than 14 years and found that just 4.5% (6,598) of them developed diabetes.

When broken down by menopause age and type (surgical or natural),…