Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to females and nearly universal experience in women's lives and is poorly understood. It is characterized by co-ordinated sequence of hormonal changes but the changes that occur in the distribution of hematological parameters and biochemical parameters have not been clearly established. The present study was undertaken with the following aim: i) To compare he...

BACKGROUND: Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to females and nearly universal experience in women's lives and is poorly understood. It is characterized by co-ordinate sequence of hormonal changes but the changes that occur in the distribution of hematological parameters, biochemical parameters have not been clearly established. AIMS: To compare Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), Serum tota...

The results of previous studies on the menstrual-related sleep changes were inconsistent. The menstrual-related circadian sleep-wake and rest-activity rhythms changes are still uncertain. Using actigraphic monitoring of wrist activity, we investigated the sleep-wake and rest-activity patterns of 12 normally cyclic healthy women during reproductive life. Multivariate analyses were performed duri...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of the relationship between the menstrual phases and smoking behavior have been problematic, so the association of menstrual phases with smoking behavior and correlations among smoking, psychological and physical conditions in each phase of the menstrual cycle are unclear. METHODS To accurately examine the association between menstrual phases and the amount of smok...

results there was a significant increase (p < 0.05) in leptin levels on day 14 (12.75 + 5.8 ng/ml) and day 21 (12.91 + 3.2 ng/ml) for age group 18-30 years compared to day 14 (11.60 + 3.2 ng/ml) and day 21 (11.60 + 3.2 ng/ml) for age group 31-40 years. leptin was positively correlated with fsh on day 14, with lh on day 7 and day 21; likewise, with progesterone on day 21 and day 28 and with estr...

Fifteen highly neurotic women and 21 women who were low in neuroticism participated in this study. The women were surveyed three times over a single menstrual cycle during the mid-late luteal, menstrual, and late follicular phases. Each time, the participants were asked to use reappraisal to regulate their emotions, which were evoked by a sad film clip, and their subjective emotional experience...

in the secretory phase (Fig. 1C). Dysmorphic erythrocytes (morphologically variable) have been reported to be a marker for glomerular bleeding and isomorphic erythrocytes (morphologically uniform) for nonglomerular bleeding (2 ). The present study revealed that most erythrocytes in the menstrual phase are isomorphic but that all erythrocytes detected in the other phases are dysmorphic, suggesti...

OBJECTIVE The validity of prior studies on the menstrual cycle and suicide attempts assumes that suicidal women accurately describe their cycles. The three objectives of this study were 1) to explore whether prior inconsistencies are due to the effects of sample selection and method of assessment of the menstrual cycle, 2) to assess the relationship between the menstrual cycle phase and suicide...

Introduction: Suicide or para suicide is one of the known complications all around the world that unfortunately has had an increasing trend in recent decades. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between different phases of menstrual cycle and suicide attempts among suicidal women who referred to the Poisoning Ward of Farschian Hospital, Hamedan, Iran. Materials and Metho...