Published associations between combined oral contraceptive use and uterine fibroid development have lacked prospective imaging with ultrasound to distinguish between incident and prevalent fibroids. The Study of Environment, Lifestyle, and …
Objective: To compare 12-month post-treatment health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and symptom severity (SS) changes among patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids (SUF) not seeking fertility and undergo a hysterectomy, abdominal myome…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether greater symptom severity can explain higher hysterectomy rates among premenopausal non-Hispanic Black compared with White patients in the U.S. South rather than potential overtreatment of Black patients. METH…
Background: Quality of life (QOL) and psychological health has been reported to be decreased among women with gynecological conditions such as uterine fibroids (UFs). Materials and Methods: Women enrolled in the Comparing Options for Manage…
OBJECTIVES: To characterize reasons for hormonal contraceptive (HC) use in 1,455 African-American women, aged 23-35 years. STUDY DESIGN: The community-based cohort members were recruited from the Detroit, Michigan area in 2010-2012. HC his…
The field of reproductive epidemiology has primarily focused on reproductive outcomes and gynaecologic cancers. The study of non-cancerous, gynaecologic conditions (eg, uterine fibroids, endometriosis) has not received serious treatment in …
OBJECTIVE: To compare short-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) 6-12 weeks after hysterectomy or myomectomy for the treatment of symptomatic leiomyomas. METHODS: We conducted a prospective comparative effectiveness analysis of data…
BACKGROUND: Uterine fibroids are common in premenopausal women, yet comparative effectiveness research on uterine fibroid treatments is rare. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to design and establish a uterine fibroid registry based…
OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize the impact of uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) in a racially diverse sample of women in the United States. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 968 women (573 white, 268 African American, 127 other races) aged 29-59 y…