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  1. Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is considered a social norm in many African societies, with varying prevalence among countries. Mali is one of the eight countries with very high prevalence of FGM/C i...

    Authors: Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Eugene Budu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Ebenezer Agbaglo, Collins Adu, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Anthony Idowu Ajayi and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:180
  2. Residual disease following cytoreductive surgery in patients with ovarian cancer has been associated with poorer survival outcomes compared with no residual disease. We performed a meta-analysis to assess the ...

    Authors: Dana M. Chase, Anadi Mahajan, David Alexander Scott, Neil Hawkins and Linda Kalilani
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:179
  3. This study aims to describe a conceptual model that could illuminate the decision process women go through when choosing to go flat on one or both sides due to breast cancer.

    Authors: Anna Paganini, Linda Myrin Westesson, Emma Hansson and Susanne Ahlstedt Karlsson
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:178
  4. When children are diagnosed of cancer, parents face varied financial issues. Among some of the identifiable factors that cause financial challenges among breastfeeding mothers include the high cost of childhoo...

    Authors: Margaret Marfo, Angela Kwartemaa Acheampong and Comfort Asare
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:177
  5. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and the most frequent cancer worldwide. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, women experience unexpected and stressful events. In Ethiopia, specifically in...

    Authors: Beimnet Desalegn Kedida, Mihiretu Mohammed Mukacho, Mihiretu Alemayehu, Serawit Samuiel, Sintayehu Kussa, Yordanos Sisay, Desta Markos and Worku Mimani
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:176
  6. Male partners’ involvement in birth preparedness and complication readiness plans is a key strategy to improve maternal and child health. It assists an expectant mother to make timely decisions in receiving ca...

    Authors: Daniel Yehualashet, Hirut Gemeda and Berhan Tsegaye Negash
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:175
  7. Morbid Obesity (MO) is a public health problem that affects a person’s physical, psychological and sexual well-being. Women with MO are affected by their body image and self-concept, and obesity stigma may aff...

    Authors: José Granero-Molina, María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte, Cristina Arias Hoyos, María José Torrente Sánchez, Cayetano Fernández-Sola and María Dolores Ruiz-Fernández
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:174
  8. Pelvic organ prolapse is a debilitating condition impacting lives of millions of women worldwide. Sacrocolpopexy (SCP) is considered an effective and durable surgical technique for treatment of apical prolapse...

    Authors: Henry H. Chill, Alireza Hadizadeh, Claudia Paya-Ten, Angela Leffelman, Cecilia Chang, Nani P. Moss and Roger P. Goldberg
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:173
  9. Anthropometry is a reliable method to assess obesity status, and previous studies have shown the association of several dietary quality scores with obesity using anthropometric indices. This study aimed to eva...

    Authors: Matin Nazari, Khadijeh Mirzaie and Seyedali Keshavarz
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:172
  10. Pubic hair grooming involves the partial or complete removal of pubic hair, and it is a common practice among men and women. Grooming is more prevalent in women, who employ various methods such as shaving, wax...

    Authors: Asmaa Eltobgy, Ahmed Aljabali, Ahmed Farag, Mohammad Elshorbgy, Mona Hamed, Esraa Hamouda, Heba Hamouda, Neveen Refaey, Marwa Kabeel, Sarah Amro, Toka Abouheseba and Mohammed Tarek
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:171
  11. Menstrual health in humanitarian contexts is a neglected topic. Its taboo nature presents difficulties for participants in menstrual health projects in these particularly challenging settings. Namely, their ex...

    Authors: Georgia Hales, Paul Hutchings, Katy Roelich, Mahua Das, Alexandra Machado, Debora Bonucci and Farah Salem
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:170
  12. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) levels between women with post-menopausal osteopenia or osteoporosis to those with normal bone mineral densit...

    Authors: Maryam Salimi, Monireh Khanzadeh, Seyed Ali Nabipoorashrafi, Seyed Arsalan Seyedi, Shirin Yaghoobpoor, Jean-Michel Brismée, Brandon Lucke-Wold, Mehrnoosh Ebadi, Arshin Ghaedi, Varun Singh Kumar, Peyman Mirghaderi, Hamid Rabie and Shokoufeh Khanzadeh
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:169
  13. South African women have been exposed to epidemic proportions of intimate partner violence (IPV) amongst heterosexual relationships but not much is known about same-sex partnerships. Sexual minorities are excl...

    Authors: Nicole De Wet-Billings and Brendon Billings
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:168
  14. Robust information on relative effects of hormonal contraceptives on endogenous androgens is important for understanding beneficial and adverse effects, method choice and development of new methods.

    Authors: G. Justus Hofmeyr, Mandisa Singata-Madliki, Joanne Batting, Yusentha Balakrishna and Chelsea Morroni
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:167
  15. Systemic edema is an adverse effect of docetaxel chemotherapy and causes distress to patients, including those receiving this agent for breast cancer. However, its characteristics and factors related to its ef...

    Authors: Tomoko Izawa, Ami Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawashima, Nobuko Kawaguchi-Sakita, Akiyoshi Nakakura, Yuki Kataoka, Kenichiro Shide, Yukiko Mori, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Masakazu Toi and Harue Arao
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:165
  16. Urinary incontinence (UI) after successful closure of obstetric vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) repair is a widely recognized public health problem. However, there is insufficient research evaluating the factors a...

    Authors: Shimelis Tadesse, Desta Mekete, Shambel Negese, Dereje Zeleke Belachew and Galana Takele Namara
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:164
  17. A patient-centered, human-rights based approach to maternal care moves past merely reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, towards achieving a positive pregnancy experience. When evaluating an intervention,...

    Authors: Larske M. Soepnel, Khuthala Mabetha, Shane A. Norris, Molebogeng Motlhatlhedi, Nokuthula Nkosi, Sonja Klingberg, Stephen Lye and Catherine E. Draper
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:161
  18. Approximately 30% of post-operative breast cancer patients develop shoulder joint movement disorders affecting routine upper limb movement. This study discusses the impact of a neuromuscular joint facilitation...

    Authors: Ming Huo, Xin Zhang, Jialin Fan, Hao Qi, Xuemei Chai, Minghui Qu, Yuqi Shan, Hualong Xie and Chao Wang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:160
  19. Our study aims to investigate post-abortion needs-based education via the WeChat platform for women who had intended abortion in the first trimester, whether they are using effective contraception or becoming ...

    Authors: Danfeng Shi, Chenying Liu, Lingna Huang and Xiao-Qian Chen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:159
  20. Malignant Struma Ovarii (MSO) is a rare type of germ cell tumour which is diagnosed postoperatively on surgical pathology specimens by the presence of differentiated thyroid cancer in mature cystic teratomas i...

    Authors: Rawan A. Obeidat, Sakhr Alshwayyat, Tala Abdulsalam Alshwayyat, Anwar Rjoop and Qosay Mahmoud Sharqiah
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:158
  21. With the growing availability of online health resources and the widespread use of social media to better understand health conditions, people are increasingly making sense of and managing their health conditi...

    Authors: Julia Gomula, Mark Warner and Ann Blandford
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:157
  22. Acute genital ulcers can affect females of all ages. In children, they often appear as an emergency and remain a diagnostic challenge for pediatricians, gynecologists and dermatologists. Prompt diagnosis and i...

    Authors: Karolina Pokora, Karolina Kowalczyk, Robert Peterek, Marlena Cwynar, Rafał Stojko, Paweł Madej and Agnieszka Drosdzol-Cop
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:156
  23. Despite declining mortality in most countries and in Lithuania, ovarian cancer burden has remained high. Studies have indicated that antihypertensive medications use may help to improve ovarian cancer survival...

    Authors: Rūta Everatt, Irena Kuzmickienė, Birutė Brasiūnienė, Ieva Vincerževskienė, Birutė Intaitė, Saulius Cicėnas and Ingrida Lisauskienė
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:155
  24. Chronic stress and diseases occur more frequently in middle-aged compared to younger women and this is often the result of physical, psychological and socio-economic changes. These health consequences reduce l...

    Authors: Shuho Kang, Ilbong Park and Min-Seong Ha
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:154
  25. Concurrent chemoradiation is the standard treatment for advanced cervical cancer. However some patients still have a poor prognosis, and currently, there is no effective treatment for recurrence. In recent yea...

    Authors: Jialin Wu, Junying Tang, Yi Luo, Wenbo Li, Yingwei Liu and Lin Xiao
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:153
  26. Vulvar migration is a rare complication of filler injection for breast augmentation, generally presenting as repeated pain and fever. We will report a case of woman with polyacrylamide hydrogel breast injectio...

    Authors: Junxian Wen, Zhijin Li, Yarong Chi, Bo Chen, Tao Hong, Zhifei Liu, Nanze Yu and Xiaojun Wang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:152
  27. Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer among women. One form of care related to early detection of breast cancer is breast self-examination (BSE). However, evidence on knowledge, attitude, and prac...

    Authors: Bhoomika N. Jadhav, E.P. Abdul Azeez, Manoj Mathew, A.P. Senthil Kumar, M.R. Snegha, G. Yuvashree and S.N. Mangalagowri
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:151
  28. Endometriosis (EM) is a multifactorial disease that affects 10 − 15% of women of reproductive age. Additionally, 30–50% of women with EM suffer from infertility. The mechanism of infertility caused by EM has n...

    Authors: Jue Zhu, Yichen Chen, Huan Chen, Yuhui Sun, Lifeng Yan, Miaohua Zhu, Liang chen, Qiming Wang and Jing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:148
  29. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a type of diabetes with its first recognition during pregnancy. GDM is a high-risk maternal and neonatal condition which increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes in mothers ...

    Authors: Aditi Chakraborty and Suryakant Yadav
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:147
  30. In the postpartum period, there are numerous changes in the physical and psychological dimensions of women, which reduce the quality of life of women. The aim of this study was to compare the health-promoting ...

    Authors: Motahareh Govahi, Fereshteh Behmanesh, Hemmat Gholinia, Shabnam Omidvar and Hajar Adib-Rad
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:146
  31. This study estimated the prevalence of and factors associated with secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, and assessed attitudes and knowledge about SHS among pregnant women in Cairo, Egypt.

    Authors: Elizabeth R. Stevens, Erin L. Mead-Morse, Kareem Labib, Linda G. Kahn, Sugy Choi, Scott E. Sherman, Cheryl Oncken, Natasha J Williams, Tom Loney and Omar El Shahawy
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:145
  32. Menstruation is a major physiological change in a woman’s life, but lack of knowledge, poor practices, socio-cultural barriers, poor access to products and their improper disposal have significant consequences...

    Authors: Nishisipa Panda, Shyama Desaraju, Rudra Prasad Panigrahy, Upasona Ghosh, Shipra Saxena, Pratibha Singh and Bhuputra Panda
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:144
  33. Sexual satisfaction is a crucial part of a fulfilled life, and the ability to have satisfying sexual function is crucial to one’s sexual health. This study investigated the effect of the combined administratio...

    Authors: Saeideh Izadi, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, Parvin Yadollahi and Mojgan Mirghafourvand
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:143
  34. The relationships between psychosocial stress and diet with gut microbiota composition and diversity deserve ongoing investigation. The primary aim of this study was to examine the associations of psychosocial...

    Authors: Rachel O. Knight, Yenni E. Cedillo, Suzanne E. Judd, Elizabeth H. Baker, Andrew D. Frugé and Douglas R. Moellering
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:142
  35. Understanding HPV vaccination willingness and its influencing factors among female sex workers (FSWs) in entertainment venues in an urban area of Guangxi, China.

    Authors: Zhi-yan He, Jun-hong Wei, Jian-ming Jiang, Rui Hu and Guang-zi Qi
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:141
  36. Intimate partner violence (IPV) in Peru represents a significant public health challenge. IPV can influence women’s reproductive and social behaviors, undermining fertility control, and exacerbating unintended...

    Authors: Brenda Caira-Chuquineyra, Daniel Fernandez-Guzman, Andrea G. Cortez-Soto, Diego Urrunaga-Pastor, Guido Bendezu-Quispe and Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:140
  37. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with cervical cancer and cervical dysplasia worldwide. Data on HPV prevalence in a region is important because it serves as a predictor of the likelihood of the populat...

    Authors: Rehnuma Parvez, Paluru Vijayachari, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Avijit Roy, Mrinmoy Kumar Saha, Jawahar Ramasamy, Alwin Vins, Lipika Biswas, Alvencia Vaz, Harpreet Kaur and Muruganandam Nagarajan
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:139
  38. Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health problem. Numerous approaches for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) delivery in schools have been implemented around the world. Previous reviews on CSE did n...

    Authors: Su Mon Myat, Porjai Pattanittum, Jen Sothornwit, Chetta Ngamjarus, Siwanon Rattanakanokchai, Kyaw Lwin Show, Nampet Jampathong and Pisake Lumbiganon
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:137
  39. Adolescent heavy menstrual bleeding(HMB), menorrhagia or abnormal uterine bleeding commonly occur in adolescent women. The differential diagnosis can be challenging. The pneumonic: PALM-COEIN (polyp, adenomyos...

    Authors: Erin M. Hall, Ana E. Ravelo, Stephen C. Aronoff and Michael T. Del Vecchio
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:136
  40. Endometriosis is a benign and chronic gynecological estrogen-dependent disease. Considering the prevalence and the importance of measuring the long-term effects of endometriosis in affected women’s lives t the...

    Authors: Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Vahid Ghavami, Maryam Moradi, Khadijeh Mirzaii Najmabadi and Sanaz Mollazadeh
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:135
  41. In polypectomy with mechanical hysteroscopic morcellators, the tissue removal procedure continues until no polyp tissue remains. The decision that the polypoid tissues were removed completely is made based on ...

    Authors: Mustafa Can Sivas, Karolin Ohanoglu Cetinel and Hilal Serap Arslan
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:133
  42. Predicting the periovulatory period is very important for conception. Current approaches to predicting the periovulatory period include monitoring of basal body temperature and urine luteinizing hormone (LH) c...

    Authors: Moto Takeshita, Keita Saito, Yuya Suzuki, Wataru Yoshimasa, Risako Hayashi and Yoko Chiba
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:132
  43. Breast density has consistently been shown to be an independent risk factor for breast cancer in Western populations; however, few studies have evaluated this topic in Chinese women and there is not yet a unif...

    Authors: Song Bai, Di Song, Ming Chen, Xiaoshu Lai, Jinfeng Xu and Fajin Dong
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:131

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