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BMJ Case Reports May 2016
Topics: Adolescent; Amenorrhea; Congenital Abnormalities; Female; Humans; Hymen; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Menstruation Disturbances; Treatment Outcome; Ultrasonography
PubMed: 27147630
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2016-215124 -
British Medical Journal (Clinical... Jan 1985
Topics: Adult; Female; Humans; Infertility, Female; Infertility, Male; Male; Mathematics; Menstruation Disturbances
PubMed: 3917717
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.290.6462.140 -
British Medical Journal (Clinical... Feb 1983
Topics: Climacteric; Family Practice; Female; Genital Diseases, Female; Humans; Leukorrhea; Menstruation Disturbances; Referral and Consultation
PubMed: 6402172
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.286.6365.613 -
BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) Jan 2005
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Topics: Bone Density; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Female; Humans; Menstruation Disturbances; Osteoporosis; Sports
PubMed: 15677660
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7485.244 -
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 1993
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Child; Female; Humans; Hypothyroidism; Infertility, Female; Menstrual Cycle; Menstruation Disturbances; Middle Aged; Puberty; Thyroid Diseases; Thyroid Gland
PubMed: 8051637
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Fertility and Sterility Sep 2022
Topics: DNA; Endometriosis; Female; Humans; Menstruation Disturbances
PubMed: 36116802
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.07.012 -
The Western Journal of Medicine Oct 1985The menstrual cycle is a complex entity involving many interactions of the central nervous system, hypothalamus, pituitary and ovaries. Normal menstrual function depends... (Review)
Review
The menstrual cycle is a complex entity involving many interactions of the central nervous system, hypothalamus, pituitary and ovaries. Normal menstrual function depends on a pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion leading to a pulsatile luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone secretion that stimulates the ovaries. A cyclic burst of luteinizing hormone is also required for ovulation. Certain pathophysiologic states, such as those produced by stress, exercise and drugs, have the potential to affect the cycle at many levels. Chronic illness may have effects on beta-endorphins and hypothalamic functioning. Alternatively, the weight loss associated with chronic illness may alter estrogen metabolism, thus altering hypothalamic or pituitary function. Anorexia nervosa and simple weight loss may have effects at the hypothalamic level or through altering estrogen metabolism, as well.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Body Weight; Child; Chronic Disease; Endorphins; Female; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Gonadotropins; Humans; Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Menstrual Cycle; Menstruation Disturbances; Ovarian Neoplasms; Ovary; Physical Exertion; Sports; Stress, Physiological
PubMed: 3911586
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Tidsskrift For Den Norske Laegeforening... Jun 2022
Topics: Female; Humans; Menstruation Disturbances; Vaccination
PubMed: 35699538
DOI: 10.4045/tidsskr.22.0217 -
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology... Jan 2022As a common endocrinopathy of reproductive-aged women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by hyperandrogenism, oligo-anovulation and polycystic ovarian... (Review)
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As a common endocrinopathy of reproductive-aged women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by hyperandrogenism, oligo-anovulation and polycystic ovarian morphology. It is linked with insulin resistance through preferential abdominal fat accumulation that is worsened by obesity. Over the past two millennia, menstrual irregularity, male-type habitus and sub-infertility have been described in women and confirm that these clinical features of PCOS were common in antiquity. Recent findings in normal-weight hyperandrogenic PCOS women show that exaggerated lipid accumulation by subcutaneous (SC) abdominal stem cells during development to adipocytes in vitro occurs in combination with reduced insulin sensitivity and preferential accumulation of highly-lipolytic intra-abdominal fat in vivo. This PCOS phenotype may be an evolutionary metabolic adaptation to balance energy storage with glucose availability and fatty acid oxidation for optimal energy use during reproduction. This review integrates fundamental endocrine-metabolic changes in healthy, normal-weight PCOS women with similar PCOS-like traits present in animal models in which tissue differentiation is completed during fetal life as in humans to support the evolutionary concept that PCOS has common ancestral and developmental origins.
Topics: Adaptation, Physiological; Adult; Animals; Energy Metabolism; Female; Humans; Hyperandrogenism; Insulin Resistance; Menstruation Disturbances; Metabolic Syndrome; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
PubMed: 35012577
DOI: 10.1186/s12958-021-00878-y -
Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica... Aug 2016Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is used for treating cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort. This critical review examines women's reported CAM use, its... (Review)
Review
A critical review of complementary and alternative medicine use by women with cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort: a focus upon prevalence, patterns and applications of use and users' motivations, information seeking and self-perceived efficacy.
INTRODUCTION
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is used for treating cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort. This critical review examines women's reported CAM use, its perceived effectiveness and information relating to women's attitudes, behaviors, motivations and patterns of CAM use in its treatment.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
An extensive search of the main medical databases EBSCO, CINAHL, Medline, AMED and SCOPUS, as well as additional hand searches, was conducted. Papers included were confined to those that had been peer-reviewed, written in English and that contained original research into CAM use for cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort among adult women.
RESULTS
CAM, particularly herbal medicine, nutritional supplements and massage, is widely used for a range of cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort symptoms. A large number of CAM modalities are adopted, often simultaneously and with little professional oversight. Women's assessment of efficacy of different CAM modalities is positive, though the majority of users are self-prescribing apparently without professional guidance. Although the uptake of CAM for cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort is widespread, few empirical data are available regarding which women are using CAM, their motivations for doing so and, importantly, the sources through which women receive information about CAM.
CONCLUSIONS
This review highlights the extensive use of (often self-prescribed) CAM in a number of countries to alleviate the widespread symptoms of cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort. An understanding of all health care use by women with perimenstrual pain and discomfort is vital to help ensure safe, effective and coordinated health care that can lead to optimal patient outcomes.
Topics: Complementary Therapies; Female; Global Health; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Information Seeking Behavior; Menstruation Disturbances; Motivation; Women's Health
PubMed: 27185060
DOI: 10.1111/aogs.12921