Menstrual cycle is an endocrine function of the ovary, controlled by the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis. Variation in menstrual characters across different ages, socioeconomic status, place of residence, ethnic groups and so on suggests that the function of hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis is influenced by some internal and external factors. The objectives of the present study are to un...

OBJECTIVE To describe how menstrual cramps vary from cycle to cycle within a woman over time. To examine the influence of weight and lifestyle factors on occurrence, duration, and severity of menstrual pain. DESIGN A one-year prospective menstrual diary study. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and sixty-five women aged 17 to 19 years entering a local university in 1985. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The o...

Abstract Background Nausea and vomiting are experienced by most women during pregnancy. The onset is usually related to Last Menstrual Period (LMP) the date of which often unreliable. This study describes time nausea symptoms from ovulation compares this last menstrual period Methods Prospective cohort seeking become pregnant, recruited 12 May 2014 25 November 2016, in United Kingdom. Daily dia...

A female Hindu, aged 28 years, was admitted into the Government Headquarters Hospital, Coimbatore, ?n 8th January, 1942, with the following complaints :? For the last one year she was having pain in the lower part of the abdomen, and during the menstrual period the pain increased and she was passing blood through the umbilicus as well as per vaginam. She had also vomiting, on and off, for the l...

Menstrual Psychosis is a unique disorder (Altschule et al, 1963). Over the last 150 years, sporadic case reports of this disorder are found in the literature. As yet, the standard psychiatric diagnostic nomenclature i.e. DSM, ICD-10 does not acknowledge its individuality. We report a 16-year-old female patient who was treated for three episodes of psychosis over a period of 5 months.

Synopsis A short history of the laboratory diagnosis of pregnancy is followed by an evaulation of four immunological methods of pregnancy diagnosis. The immunological methods based upon haemagglutination-inhibition and slide latex agglutination, gave a.lOO% accuracy. It is concluded that these techniques are suitable for the diagnosis of pregnancy after the 35th day following the last menstrual...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare oral and implanted oestrogens for their effects in preventing postmenopausal osteoporosis. DESIGN Non-randomised cohort study of postmenopausal women treated with oral or depot oestrogens and postmenopausal controls. SETTING Gynaecological endocrine clinic in tertiary referral centre. PATIENTS Oral treatment group of 37 postmenopausal women (mean age 57.5 years,...

BACKGROUND In premenopausal women, the sensitivity of screening mammography for detecting breast cancer has been reported to be greater in the follicular phase than in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, which may be due to differences in mammographic density. To examine this possible effect, we compared mammographic density in premenopausal women who had mammograms at different phases of ...