Tag: Endometriosis

Highest risk for all ovarian cancers, types I and II ovarian cancer seen for women with deep infiltrating endometriosis, ovarian endometriomas

Recommendations include transvaginal ultrasound of posterior compartment, observation of relative positioning of uterus, ovaries

Findings seen despite associations between endometriosis and younger age, lower likelihood of chronic conditions

Increased health care utilization seen up to 10 years before diagnosis with increases closer to diagnosis

Twofold increase seen in prevalence of endometriosis for cadmium concentration in second and third versus first quartile

Fertility rate before surgical diagnosis was lower for women with endometriosis than reference women

Hysterectomy modifies risk for cancer but not equally for Black and White women and for both conditions

Most significant causality was found between infertility-related endometriosis, cardioembolic ischemic stroke

Of the total association of endometriosis with stroke risk, largest proportions attributed to hysterectomy/oophorectomy, hormone therapy

Patients with migraine are significantly more likely to have severe or moderate endometriosis