Reproductive History

BOSTON — Pregnant and reproductive-aged women have had recent declines in exposure to most endocrine-disrupting chemicals, though women with a lower socioeconomic status are exposed to higher chemical levels, according to a speaker.

PHILADELPHIA — A woman’s reproductive history, including the timing of menarche, menopause and any pregnancy complications, may reveal short- and long-term cardiometabolic and cardiovascular risk trajectories, according to a speaker.

Results of a Mendelian randomization study support a causal role of several reproductive factors on women’s risks for cardiovascular disease, according to researchers.

Reproductive history events indicating more estrogen exposure correlated with larger gray matter volume in midlife women, according to a study published in Neurology.

Infertility was independently associated with an increased risk for atherosclerotic CVD among nulliparous women, a longitudinal cohort study showed.

Longer exposure to endogenous estrogen is associated with increased levels of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in women, according to a study published in Menopause.

Menopausal women who have 41 or more reproductive years have more than double the risk for developing thyroid cancer compared with women who have 30 or fewer reproductive years, according to study data.

Women who had type 1 diabetes onset before menarche have a reproductive period nearly 3 years shorter than women without diabetes, according to a study published in Menopause.

Women who had no major comorbidities before their first pregnancy but who developed preeclampsia had a five-fold increased risk for end-stage kidney disease, according to a recently published study.