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Linear and multinomial logistic regression model was used to assess the association of the age at natural menopause with influencing factors and odds ratios for the association between premature ovarian failure, early and late menopause with the ethnicity, and influencing factors.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The mean age at natural menopause of Han women was 0.74 year earlier than Tibetan women (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.003). The Han women also showed a lower likelihood for experiencing late menopause with an adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence intervals) of 0.54 (0.34, 0.88) compared with the Tibetan women. Factors associated with later menopause have included older age at survey, ever married, high school and above educational level, annual household income of \u2265200,000 RMB, no smoking, habit of eating spicy food, no history of severe food shortage, more gravidity, less parity, use of intrauterine device, and no history of using oral contraceptives.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The age at natural menopause of Chinese Han women was earlier than that of Chinese Tibetan women. 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