Martin Vessey

ObjectivesThis study was undertaken to investigate the overlap between chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, irritable bowel syndrome, and genitourinary symptoms in the community and also to examine associated investigations and d…

BACKGROUND: Chronic pelvic pain has often been described as a major women's health issue, but no information exists on the extent of the problem in the United Kingdom. AIM: To investigate the community prevalence of chronic pelvic pain and …

OBJECTIVES: To describe duration of symptoms and patterns of diagnosis and referral in women with chronic pelvic pain. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis of the MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. SETTING: One hundred and thirty-six gener…

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence and incidence in primary care of chronic pelvic pain in women in the UK. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. SETTING: One hundred and thirty-six general practices in …

MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. Setting One hundred and thirty-six general practices in the UK. Population From 284,162 women aged 12-70 who were registered on the database and who had a general practice contact in 1991,24,053 chronic pe…

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a prevalence estimate for chronic pelvic pain in women in the United Kingdom by analysing published data. DESIGN: Systematic review of published papers. SETTING: The general population or hospitals in the United Kingdom…

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OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology of endometriosis in women attending family planning clinics with special reference to contraceptive methods. DESIGN: Non-randomised cohort study with follow up of subjects for up to 23 years. Disease …

OBJECTIVE: To examine patterns of morbidity following hospitalisation for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). DESIGN: Cohort study using Oxford Record Linkage Study data. SETTING: Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. SUBJECTS: One thousand three …

Abstract There is substantial evidence that smoking produces an ‘anti-oestrogen’ effect (Baron 1984). This important consequence of smoking appears to be the end result of a number of metabolic pathways: altered hepatic metabolism of endoge…

Hysterectomy is performed much less frequently in Britain than in North America, Australia and some European countries. Various theories have been advanced to explain this lower rate of surgery. These include: fewer health care resources (h…