In the United States, the average age for going through menopause is 51.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Management of menopause-related symptoms.
Available at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/menosum.htm (accessed on 20 March 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ Most women get some symptoms of menopause around this time. A survey in Scotland looked at more than 6,000 women between the ages of 45 and 54.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Porter M, Penney GC, Russell D, et al.
A population based survey of women's experience of the menopause.
British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 1996; 103: 1025-1028.

 

 

 

 

 

² It found that 84 in 100 of these women had at least one symptom of menopause.

Symptoms of menopause can be distressing. But for most women, they're not serious. For example, about 57 in 100 women get hot flashes.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Porter M, Penney GC, Russell D, et al.
A population based survey of women's experience of the menopause.
British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 1996; 103: 1025-1028.

 

 

 

 

 

² But only 22 in 100 women say that they're bad enough to be a problem.

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