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Weight and body-composition change in menopause
limited Evidence strength · Status: published · Source agreement: medium
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What the literature reports
The SWAN cohort reports that around the start of the menopause transition the rate of fat gain roughly doubled and lean mass declined, continuing until about 2 years after the final menstrual period. Visceral (abdominal) fat increases over the transition and is an independent predictor of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Citations
- Changes in body composition and weight during the menopause transition (SWAN) — SWAN (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) · cohort
Notes
'Weight and body-composition change' needs an entities entry (kind: symptom); id not invented. Single observational cohort source.
Provenance
This entry is resolved from per-source signals; the raw claims are the audit trail behind it.
- Machine record: /data/sites/weight-body-composition.yml (schema-valid, verbatim)
- Signals:
sig-20260710-weight-effect,sig-20260710-weight-visceral-outcome - First recorded 2026-07-10 · last updated 2026-07-10