Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus · active 2021

Study types

  • article 1

Condition tags

  • mesh:D004715 1
  • endometriosis 1
  • infertility 1
article 2021
Body size during adulthood, but not in childhood, associates with endometriosis, specifically in the peritoneal subtype—population‐based life‐course data from birth to late fertile age
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.14090

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition causing chronic pain and infertility. Only limited data exist on body size during childhood and adolescence in affected women. A leaner body shape has been associated with endo…