Helping women with premenstrual syndrome.
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چکیده
Premenstrual syndrome has been dismissed by many doctors because their experiences have been limited to observations of their own cycles or those of their wives and female colleagues, most of whom experience only mild psychological symptoms with the ovarian endocrine cycle. Mild physiological symptoms occur in as many as 95% of women of reproductive age, only 5% being totally free from symptoms. Around 5% of symptomatic women complain of such severe symptoms that their lives are totally disrupted during the second half of the cycle. Symptoms may be so severe that they lead to suicide, parasuicide, and acts of violence against others. The first step in helping women with premenstrual syndrome is for doctors to recognise the importance of the disorder and to distinguish true premenstrual syndrome from the milder and much commoner physiological symptoms. Women with premenstrual syndrome must also be distuinguished from women with a psychiatric disorder, whose symptoms are not related to the ovarian endocrine cycle. Failure to make these two distinctions has led to inappropriate and ineffective treatment.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 307 6917 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993