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I lost weight and my period stopped. How are weight and menstruation linked?

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Title
I lost weight and my period stopped. How are weight and menstruation linked?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.u96fyqs3t
Authors

Schaumberg, Mia, Pernoud, Laura

Abstract

It’s not only being underweight that can cause irregularities in your period.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 46. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 August 2026.
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#1,119,513
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#118,021
of 209,714 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,505,803 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 209,714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.8. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.