The Relation between Obesity with Menarche in Female Adolescent

ABSTRACT

Background: Lipid grown on girl rapidly, stating by 15% in pre-adolescents to be 22% at adolescents phase. Fat on the body creating leptin, more peptin mean more estrogen. If there is too much estrogen there will also a lot of risk of having disease, so the relation between number of fat and menarche as an indication of adolescents are very important to know about.

Methods: This research looking for the relation between BMI, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio with onset of menarche, involving 60 participants. By using cross sectional research methods, data was found from examination and gave a questionnaire.

Results: Analysis of chi square test showed that there is a significant relation between BMI, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio with onset of menarche, with p value are 0,020; 0,014 and 0,036 (p<0,05).

Conclusions: These result showed that there is a significant relation between BMI, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio with onset of menarche

Key Word: BMI, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, menarche