Evaluation of weight and morphotype of French women in gynecological consultation
Jamin, C.
Gynecologie Obstetrique and Fertilite 29(11): 814-820
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 1297-9589 PMID: 11770275 Document Number: 536421
Weight and morphology change with age in proportions which depend on numerous environmental factors. This French study on 3,000 women age between 40 and 70, seeing their gynecologist, has shown that the average body mass index of this population is 23.97 kg/m2, and that the waist hip ratio is 0.81. Those two parameters increase with age and are reduced when women have a physical activity for more than 2 hours a week and are on oral contraception or hormone replacement therapy. Women on percutaneous hormone replacement therapy have a lower body mass index and a lower waist hip ratio. Cigarette smoking goes with a lower body mass index. When it dates back to more than 5 years, menopause is associated with a body mass index increase. In this population, the proportion of women under hormone replacement therapy is 69%, mostly percutaneous estrogenotherapy on a discontinuous sequential rhythm.