IT MIGHT be possible to predict how many years a woman has left before the menopause based on an ultrasound measurement of the volume of her ovaries.
That’s the argument of Hamish Wallace of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, UK, and Thomas Kelsey, a mathematician at the University of St Andrews. “We now have the potential to be able to tell a woman how fast her biological clock is ticking and how much time she has before it will run down,” says Wallace.
The pair assume that the variation in the age of menopause depends on the…
