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  1. 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
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2024 24:229

  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. The sars-Cov-2 pandemic has determined psychological stress, particularly in the young population of medical students. We studied the impact of the pandemic on menstrual cycle alteration in relation to psychol...

    Authors: Daniela Polese, Flavia Costanzi, Paola Bianchi, Antonio Frega, Filippo Bellati, Maria Paola De Marco, Pasquale Parisi, Oliviero Bruni, Donatella Caserta and Giuliana Cozza
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:130
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  6. Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women in Thailand. General practitioners, within their primary healthcare role, play a vital role in the cervical cancer screening program, as they a...

    Authors: Monchada Sukrong, Peerapong Prapaisilp, Tunchanok Juntamongkol, Noppachai Siranart, Natacha Phoolcharoen, Nicha Assavapokee, Nakarin Sirisabya and Somsook Santibenchakul
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:129
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  7. The association between weight change and incident hypertension (HTN) in menopausal women has not been well characterized. This study aimed to determine whether weight changes after menopausal years make a dif...

    Authors: Marzieh Saei Ghare Naz, Maryam Mousavi, Mahsa Noroozzadeh, Maryam Farahmand, Fereidoun Azizi and Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:128
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  8. During the coronavirus pandemic, people faced strict preventive measures, including staying at home and maintaining social distance, which led to increasing rates of intimate partner violence. Women have been ...

    Authors: Mearg Eyasu Kifle, Setognal Birara Aychiluhm and Etsay Woldu Anbesu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:127
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  9. To compare the application of sequential embryo transfer, cleavage embryo transfer, and blastocyst transfer combined with intrauterine perfusion in frozen–thawed embryo transfer cycles in patients with recurre...

    Authors: Wenda Zou, Dan Liu, Juan Peng, Zhijing Tang, Yukun Li, Juan Zhang and Ziwei Liu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:126
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  10. Cervical cancer is a significant public health concern in Indonesia, and effective screening methods are necessary to improve the detection and reduce mortality. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of...

    Authors: Fitriana Murriya Ekawati, Putri Listiani, Sri Idaiani, Jarir At Thobari and Firdaus Hafidz
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:125
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  11. Patients with rheumatic diseases (RDs) have a lower desire to have children, fewer children, and a longer interval between their pregnancies, which can be due to the patient’s personal choice, the physician’s ...

    Authors: Elham Manouchehri, Mona Larki and Maryam Sahebari
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:124
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  12. An increasing body of observational studies have indicated an association between gut microbiota and endometriosis. However, the causal relationship between them is not yet clear. In this study, we employed Me...

    Authors: Chunxiao Dang, Zhenting Chen, Yuyan Chai, Pengfei Liu, Xiao Yu, Yan Liu and Jinxing Liu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:123
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  13. The annual global burden of stillbirths is estimated to be 3.2 million, of which 98% occur in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, the prevalence of stillbirth outcomes wa...

    Authors: Bantayehu Nega Arega, Lakachew Asrade Feleke, Hiwotemariam Alemu Tilahun, Dawud Muhammed Ahmed and Fekadie Getachew Hailu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:122
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  14. Evidence from recent studies suggested that variation in the quantity and quality of macronutrients in the diet may potentially play a role in predicting the risk of breast cancer (BC). In the current study, w...

    Authors: Mitra Kazemi Jahromi, Hamid Ahmadirad, Hossein Farhadnejad, Mostafa Norouzzadeh, Ebrahim Mokhtari, Farshad Teymoori, Niloufar Saber, Zeinab Heidari, Parvin Mirmiran and Bahram Rashidkhani
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:121
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  15. Despite the significant weight of difficulty, Ethiopia's survival rate and mortality predictors have not yet been identified. Finding out what influences outpatient breast cancer patients' survival time was th...

    Authors: Chalachew Gashu and Aragaw Eshetie Aguade
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:120
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2024 24:162

  16. Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) is an essential component of safe motherhood programs. This study aims to systematically identify and synthesize available evidence on birth preparedness an...

    Authors: Tanya Singh, Brajaraj Tripathy, Anuj Kumar Pandey, Diksha Gautam and Sidharth Sekhar Mishra
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:119
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  18. This study aimed to investigate the difference in absolute and fat free mass (FFM)-adjusted resting energy expenditure (mREE) and body composition (body weight, fat mass (FM), FFM) between breast cancer surviv...

    Authors: Timia Van Soom, Wiebren Tjalma, Ulrike Van Daele, Nick Gebruers and Eric van Breda
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:117
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  19. The present study aimed to evaluate the long-term oncological and obstetric outcomes following the loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) in patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and i...

    Authors: Angela Cho, Min-Young Kim, In-Sun Park and Chul-Min Park
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:116
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  20. In various disciplines, an association between surgical wait times and patient outcomes has been identified. This study is among the first to investigate whether practice setting influences wait times for elec...

    Authors: Elizabeth Trevino Kinsey, Anne Hardart, Lisa Dabney, Susan Khalil, Elianna Kaplowitz and Lois Brustman
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:115
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  21. Women with HIV have a higher risk of getting cervical cancer due to induced immunosuppression. Though this burden could be avoided through early identification and appropriate management, there is a paucity of...

    Authors: Florence Layet, Tom Murungi, Nasser Ashaba, Eustes Kigongo and Marc Sam Opollo
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:114
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  22. The prevalence of oligohydramnios ranges from 12 to 14% after 41 weeks to as high as 30% in post term pregnancies. Oligohydramnios poses a dilemma in the choice of mode of labor and delivery in a setup where t...

    Authors: Matiyas Asrat Shiferaw, Ananya Solomon, Sintayehu Getachew and Wondimu Gudu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:113
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  23. Cervical cancer remains a disease of significant concern to women’s health. The aim of this study was to identify predictors of knowledge of cervical cancer among women living with HIV and those with negative ...

    Authors: Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, Sebastian Ken-Amoah, Derek Anamaale Tuoyire, Kafui Patrick Akakpo, Elizabeth Agyare and Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:112
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  24. Obstetric fistula (OF) repair surgery aims to restore the anatomical and functional integrity of the urinary tract, allowing affected women to regain their dignity and quality of life. However, in some cases, ...

    Authors: Justin Lussy Paluku, Susan A. Bartels, Jonathan ML. Kasereka, Barthelemy Kasi Aksanti, Eugénie Mukekulu Kamabu, Olivier Mukuku, Zacharie Kibendelwa Tsongo, Stanis Okitotsho Wembonyama, Charles Wembonyama Mpoy and Jeannot Sihalikyolo Juakali
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:111
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  25. Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a prevalent but misunderstood form of gender-based violence with significant impacts women’s health and well-being. Research suggests that IPSV has a specific context...

    Authors: Síofra Peeren, Elizabeth McLindon and Laura Tarzia
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:110
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  27. As advances in oncology have led to remarkable and steady improvements in the survival rates of patients with cancer and anticancer treatment can cause premature ovarian failure in women, fertility preservatio...

    Authors: Anna-Maria Taniskidou, Polychronis Voultsos, Vasileios Tarlatzis and Eleni Timotheadou
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:108
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  28. According to the 4th and 5th rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS), there is high prevalence of hysterectomies in the three states of Andhra Pradesh Telangana and Bihar. The three said states have mor...

    Authors: Shri Kant Singh, Kirti Chauhan and Vrijesh Tripathi
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:107
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  32. Unmet need for family planning is a proportion of women among reproductive age group who want to stop or delay childbearing but are not using any method of contraception. One in ten married women face unmet ne...

    Authors: Mohammed Ammie, Mastewal Arefaynie, Bezawit Adane, Kedir Hussein and Mohammedsani Hassan
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:103
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  34. Polo-like kinase 4 (PLK4) serves as a marker for tumor features and poor outcomes in cancers. This study aimed to explore the associations of tumor PLK4 protein expression with tumor characteristics and surviv...

    Authors: Qinyan Zhao, Minli Wang and Mingcong Chen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:101
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  36. Asherman syndrome is one of the endometrial factors that influence a woman’s reproductive capacity. However, in our context, it needs to be well-documented. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical characteri...

    Authors: Melkamu Siferih, Thomas Gebre, Fufa Hunduma, Abraham Abebe, Akebom Gebremichael, Habtamu Sewunet and Tewodros Shibabaw
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:99
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  37. Premenstrual symptoms encompass a range of physical, emotional, and behavioral changes that cyclically occur before menstruation. Childhood abuse has been associated with subsequent mental health challenges, y...

    Authors: Maya Kfoury, Diana Malaeb, Perla Moubarak, Fouad Sakr, Mariam Dabbous, Souheil Hallit, Feten Fekih-Romdhane and Sahar Obeid
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:98
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  38. The incidence of breast cancer among Chinese women has gradually increased in recent years. This study aims to analyze the situation of breast cancer screening programs in China and compare the cancer detectio...

    Authors: Mengdan Li, Hongying Wang, Ning Qu, Haozhe Piao and Bo Zhu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:97
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  39. Many U.S. colleges and universities offer access to a healthcare center that provides sexual and reproductive health (SRH) resources, services, and products. The importance of health centers in college and uni...

    Authors: Rachel Olson, Jonathan Lehman, Angie Mejia, Rachael Ojeikhodion, Kristin Osiecki, Emily Kathambi, Silas Swarnakanth Kati and Anita Randolph
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:96
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  40. Ethiopia’s population is growing at about 2.7% annually with a fertility rate of 4.1 births per woman. However, as per the knowledge of the researcher, not enough studies have been done in Ethiopia to identify...

    Authors: Mamo Nigatu Gebre
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:95
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  41. Uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs) are one of the most common community-acquired infections, particularly among women. Common symptoms of UTI include dysuria, urinary urgency and increased frequenc...

    Authors: Zhao Yun, Danielle Powell, Aruni Mulgirigama and Jun Miyazaki
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:94
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  42. Previous studies have shown a relation between the consumption of different types of meats and chronic disorders. This study aims to investigate the association between red and processed meat intake with metab...

    Authors: Atousa Zandvakili, Farideh Shiraseb, Dorsa Hosseininasab, Yasaman Aali, Raul D. Santos and Khadijeh Mirzaei
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:93
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  43. Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is an etiological cyclic pelvic pain related to the menstrual period; it can negatively impact women’s quality of life and productivity. The aim of the present study was to estimate t...

    Authors: Jordana Barbosa-Silva, Mariana Arias Avila, Raissa Fernanda de Oliveira, Anny Caroline Dedicação, Amanda Garcia Godoy, Jessica Cordeiro Rodrigues and Patricia Driusso
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:92
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  44. premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is defined as the menopause before 40 years of age, and its prevalence is reported to be two-fold higher in Iranian women than the average for woman globally. POI is assoc...

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Mirinezhad, Maliheh Aghsizadeh, Hamideh Ghazizadeh, Sahar Ghoflchi, Mohammad Zamiri Bidary, Alireza Naghipour, Gordon A. Ferns, Tayebeh Hamzehloei, Alireza Pasdar and Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:91
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  45. In Pakistan, the death rate for post-menopausal women with breast cancer is significant due to late detection and delayed referral to proper facilities. There are a few reports on Pakistan’s epidemiology and b...

    Authors: Lubna Gohar, Bushra Riaz, Muhammad Sohaib Nadeem, Seyyedha Abbas, Tayyaba Afsar, Suhail Razak, Fatima Muccee, Fohad Mabood Husain and Huma Shafique
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:90
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  46. Women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) face confusion and uncertainty about treatment options. The objective of this study was to determine whether there are differences in decisional conflict ab...

    Authors: Cecilia Portugal, Albert J. Farias, Erika L. Estrada and Aniket A. Kawatkar
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:89
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  47. Evidence on how menstrual characteristics may differ based on socioeconomic factors and self-rated health is significantly scarce. The main aim of this study was to investigate the associations between menstru...

    Authors: Laura Medina-Perucha, Tomàs López-Jiménez, Georgina Pujolar-Díaz, Cristina Martínez-Bueno, Jordina Munrós-Feliu, Carme Valls-Llobet, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, Anna Sofie Holst, Diana Pinzón-Sanabria, María Mercedes Vicente-Hernández, Andrea García-Egea and Anna Berenguera
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:88
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  48. Approximately 50% of breast mucinous carcinomas (MCs) are oval and have the possibility of being misdiagnosed as fibroadenomas (FAs). We aimed to identify the key features that can help differentiate breast MC...

    Authors: Hongli Wang, Yue Hu, Cui Tan, Ran Gu, Yudong Li, Liang Jin, Xiaofang Jiang, Jingsi Mei, Qiang Liu and Chang Gong
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:87
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  49. The objective of this study was to investigate the correlation between various factors and the clinical outcomes of Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) in both young and aged patients, aiming to provide a theoreti...

    Authors: Chunmei- Yu, Lijing- Bai, Jian mei-Zhou, Xiao yu-Wang, Li Chen and Jinghua- Zhang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:86
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  50. Vaginal fistula (VF) affects 2–3 million women globally, with the majority in Africa. In Uganda, it’s 2%, with western Uganda having the highest prevalence. Major predisposing factors for refugee women include...

    Authors: George Opong, Everd Bikaitwoha Maniple and Caroline Noel Agabiirwe
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:85
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