Resumen

LICEA PUIG, Manuel E.; ALVAREZ ALTAMIRANO, Víctor Alfonso; MONTEAGUDO PEREZ, Gilda  y  GOMEZ ALZUGARAY, Manuel. Features of postmenospause in women presenting with Type 1 diabetes. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2007, vol.18, n.1. ISSN 1561-2953.

In diabetic women menospause occur in earliest ages. Aim ot present paper is to identify feaures of spontaneous menopause and postmenopause in a group of women presenting with Type 1 diabetes (1 DM). A transversal and descriptive study was conducted in 60 postmenaopausal women presenting with 1 MD aged 40-59, and in 80 comparable non-diabetec women (control group) with chronic diseases, apparently healthy. Study women were resident in urban areas and have an spontaneous menopause. Women with menopause of surgical cause, or other iatrogenic causes were excluded. Age, body mass index, smoking, habit intensity, pregnancies, age in first pregnancy, birth rate, age in first birth, breast feeding, age in menarche, and stages of postmenospause, presence of symptoms and its severity. In diabetic women evoluliton time was conisered of 40,06 ? 4,68 years, and in those non-diabetec aged 49,32 ? 3,22, p <0,003. Smoking, labor and births rate, breast feeding, and age of menarche, weren't associated with age of menopause in diabetec women. It was confirmed that chronologic age and that of menaopause were smaller in women presenting with 1 MD. There aren't relevant differences related to symptoms and its severity, among women presenting with and without 1 MD.

Palabras clave : Menopause; postmenospause; climateric; type 1 diabetes mellitus; menarche.