Women with Southeast Asian heritage can experience menopause symptoms up to seven years before their white peers.
) and face a lower risk of misdiagnosis and stigma compared with women from other ethnicities. 20 years ago,
“Most accounts of menopause are solely based on white women’s experiences,” Kuypers says. “But everyone should have images and stories of people who look like them that they can relate to. It’s a part of who we are and how we understand ourselves. When she first got symptoms, she googled ‘menopause’: the results brought up pages of white, grey-haired women. “That’s what I want to change,” she says. “I didn’t fit in. I felt unseen and unheard, and it took me a long time to accept that I was going through menopause.”
who specialises in women’s health. She says she’s disappointed by the lack of research into Black and Asian women’s menopause symptoms. “I tried to write a paper in 2019 but I had little data to fall back on. I relied on my clinical qualitative analysis of what I have seen and heard in my communities,” Dr Arif says.
In particular, Dr Arif warns that Black and Asian women’s perimenopause is still poorly understood, as is the relationship between. “Most of the data on perimenopause is conducted on white Caucasian women then trans-imposed onto all women,” she says.
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