“…Study finds way to ‘time’ women’s biological clock, the predictions, from age 20, are accurate to four months…
Women who want a career and a family can hardly fail to be aware these days of the biological clock ticking.
What they don’t know is whether their own clock is fast or slow — and how long they can safely leave it if they want a child.
But now scientists hold out hope of a simple blood test they say can predict the date of a woman’s menopause, to within four months.
If their work can be confirmed by larger studies, women will be able to have a much clearer idea of how long they are likely to remain fertile.
The test measures the concentrations of a hormone that is produced by cells in the ovaries.
Iranian scientists who present their work to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome tomorrow …
… say that the hormone level can help to predict when a woman as young as 20 will reach the menopause…”
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