BACKGROUND Menstruation has a variable pattern within a few years of menarche which may not be well understood by many adolescent girls. Providing accurate information on menstruation is necessary to reduce anxiety, menstrual morbidity and improve reproductive health of these adolescents. OBJECTIVE To determine the age at menarche, duration of menstruation, length of menstrual cycle, regulari...

BACKGROUND Menstrual irregularity is an indicator of endocrine disorders and reproductive health status. It is associated with various diseases and medical conditions, including obesity and underweight. We aimed to assess the association between body weight changes and menstrual irregularity in Korean women. METHODS A total of 4,621 women 19 to 54 years of age who participated in the 2010 to ...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION AND STUDY OBJECTIVE: The association between pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and female reproductive health problems is not well addressed. This study was done at Assiut University and Woman's Health University Hospitals to estimate the effect of pulmonary TB on menstrual patterns and fertility of women in childbearing age. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study composed of 429 w...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper is to empirically identify a treatment-independent statistical method to describe clinically relevant bleeding patterns by using bleeding diaries of clinical studies on various sex hormone containing drugs. METHODS We used the four cluster analysis methods single, average and complete linkage as well as the method of Ward for the pattern recognition in menstru...

BACKGROUND Tubal ligation (TL) is recommended for women who have completed their family planning. The existence of the menstrual disorders following this procedure has been the subject of debate for decades. This study was conducted to identify the relationship between tubal ligation and menstrual disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS A historical cohort study was carried out on 140 women undergoi...

The aim of the present study was to assess predictive factors for occurrence of idiopathic menorrhagia (IM), a disease characterized by abnormal endometrial blood vessel morphology. It was hypothesized that IM exhibits familial clustering (suggesting inheritance) and is associated with other vascular abnormalities, primarily cutaneous hemangiomas. Women with IM (n=152) and healthy, regularly me...

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been implicated in the representation of emotional stimuli, assignment of emotional valence/salience to stimuli, stimulus-reinforcement association learning, motivation, and socio-emotional control. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in female subjects without premenstrual mood symptoms, we found that OFC activity to emotional linguistic stimuli varie...