The onset of menses for adolescents with physical or intellectual disabilities can affect their independence and add additional concerns for families at home, in schools, and in other settings. The pediatrician is the primary health care provider to explore and assist with the pubertal transition and menstrual management. Menstrual management of both normal and abnormal cycles may be requested ...

BACKGROUND The menstrual practices of adolescents derive largely from health issues associated with their adjustment to reproductive life. The objective of the study was to assess the effect of pre-menarcheal training on the menstrual and hygiene practices of Nigerian school girls. METHOD A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey of randomly selected post-menarcheal school girls using a pr...

The objective: to establish the risk factors for development of great obstetrical syndromes (GOS) on basis a prospective analysis somatic, reproductive, obstetric anamnesis in pregnant women with clinical manifestations GOSMaterials and methods. We conducted analyses reproductive history 572 symptoms GOS, who had following complications: 21 – preeclampsia, 38 preterm deliveries, 13 placental ab...

Recently, Sevag & Colton (1959) published a chemical test for detecting the precise day of ovulation. We have performed this test in 112 menstrual cycles of sixty women. Out of 112 menstrual cycles studied, in fifty-six menstrual cycles (50%) the chemical patterns were atypical. We do not substantiate the claim of Sevag & Colton that the ovulation invariably occurs between 10th and 14th days of...

High androgen levels have been associated with menstrual irregularities in clinical populations, but not in healthy women. We examined the association between testosterone and menstrual irregularities in a nonclinical population of 194 healthy premenopausal women, none of whom reported chronic health conditions. Women provided saliva samples for assay of salivary testosterone, and responded to ...

Few studies exist on the physiological changes in the concentrations of growth hormone (GH), insulin-like growth factors (IGF) and IGF-binding proteins (IGFBP) within the menstrual cycle, and some controversy remains. We therefore decided to study the impact of endogenous sex steroids on the GH-IGF-IGFBP axis during the ovulatory menstrual cycle in 10 healthy women (aged 18-40 years). Blood sam...

BACKGROUND Sex hormones are known to regulate some responses during exercise. Evaluation of the differences in exercise response with regard to menstrual cycle will help understand the menstrual cycle phase specific adaptations to exercise and athletic performance. METHODS We investigated the effects of menstrual cycle phase and carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion on immune response during endurance...