Does obesity cause irregular menstruation?

Obese women due to high body fat content, it is easy to combine insulin resistance. Insulin resistance itself will affect women's endocrine function, inhibit follicular development, resulting in anovulatory or rare ovulation problems, and even combined with polycystic ovary syndrome, so obese patients may show irregular menstruation. In addition, obese women due to high body fat content, long-term estrogen levels rise, will also stimulate endometrial overgrowth, may be combined with endometrial hyperplasia. If combined with menstrual thinning, and even may show endometrial cancer and other problems.