Rebecca Hardy

STUDY QUESTION: What is the association between endometriosis and the type and age of menopause? SUMMARY ANSWER: Women with endometriosis had a 7-fold increased risk of undergoing surgical menopause rather than natural menopause and were m…

ObjectiveTo examine the associations of infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and stillbirth with the risk of first non-fatal and fatal stroke, further stratified by stroke subtypes.DesignIndividual participant pooled analysis of eight prospe…

BackgroundMenopause that occurs before the age of 45 and is not medically induced (referred to here as 'early natural menopause') affects around one in 10 women and has serious health consequences. These consequences include increased risk …

Importance: Early menarche and early menopause are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in midlife, but little is known about the association between reproductive life span and the risk of CVD. Objective: To invest…

STUDY QUESTION: How does the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) vary with type and age of menopause? SUMMARY ANSWER: Earlier surgical menopause (e.g. <45 years) poses additional increased risk of incident CVD events, compared to women wi…

BACKGROUND: The association between hysterectomy and subsequent, long-term psychological health is still not well characterised. We aimed to test the association between hysterectomy and subsequent psychological health and examine variation…

ObjectivesTo examine the associations of age at menarche, timing of first birth and parity with hysterectomy rates; to investigate whether these associations were independent of each other and other potential confounders and varied by reaso…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between indicators of lifetime socio-economic position and rates of hysterectomy in three British cohorts. DESIGN: Cross-cohort comparative study. SETTING: Two cohorts: England, Scotland and Wales. Thir…