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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Endocr Metab Res. 2022 Oct 6;27:100419. doi: 10.1016/j.coemr.2022.100419

Figure 1: Hypothetical graph of changes in cardiovascular risk factors related to chronological aging versus ovarian aging over the menopause transition.

Figure 1:

With chronological aging, changes in CVD risk factors over the menopause transition are linear. On the other hand, with ovarian aging, inflection points can be identified around the perimenopausal stage, where the worsening of CVD is steepest during this period.