New Chinese research has found that girls who start their periods earlier may be at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.
Carried out by researchers from Zhengzhou University, the new large-scale study looked at 15,346 postmenopausal women in rural China to investigate whether early menarche, which is a female’s first period, is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
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