Significant social class gradient in menstrual disorders

Significant social class gradient in menstrual disorders.

EDITOR,-Diana Kuh and Susan Stirling report significant educational gradients for risk of admission for diseases of the female genital system and breast, and in particular for menstrual disorders: 1% of highly educated women were admitted to hospital for menstrual problems compared with 19% of those with minimal qualifications. 1 Social gradients were also observed for hysterectomies and dilata...

Menstrual disorders.

Menstrual disorders.

Menstrual disorders are very common in adolescence, and can be the cause of a significant amount of stress to both the patients and their parents. Variations of the menstrual cycle in this age are very broad and are mainly caused by the immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis. Amenorrhea (either primary or secondary), abnormal uterine bleeding and dysmenorrhea are conditions...

[Menstrual disorders in adolescence].

Altered frequency of the menstrual cycle accompanied by pain are manifestations of functional anomalies of the female reproductive system. These symptoms require prompt and accurate diagnosis and therapy to prevent a chronic condition that can seriously disturb the adolescent's psychic well being. The most common anomalies of the menstrual cycle and the causes of altered cycle frequency are out...

Menstrual Disorders in Nongenital Tuberculosis

Menstrual patterns differ even in nongenital tuberculosis. Our objective is to determine whether nongenital tuberculosis makes menstrual dysfunction, before and sustain after treatment. Menstrual patterns were compared in women with pulmonary or extrapulmonary but nongenital tuberculosis with healthy nursing students and also with themselves, before and after treatment in a retrospective cohort...