Reynir Tómas Geirsson

INTRODUCTION: The incidence and prevalence of pelvic endometriosis is still being debated. Population-based studies have shown annual incidences between 0.1% and 0.3%, which translates to a prevalence of symptom-giving disease of between 2%…

Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 controls of European and East Asian descent, identified 42 genom…

STUDY QUESTION: Is there a shared genetic or causal association of endometriosis with asthma or what biological mechanisms may underlie their potential relationships? SUMMARY ANSWER: Our results confirm a significant but non-causal associat…

For a long time there has been uncertainty in how to classify and categorize abnormal bleeding from the uterus. The old terms of menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, menometrorrhagia have lingered on and there will be those who do not know how these …

Hysterectomy is one of the most common operations worldwide. While usually the indications are clear-cut, management has been undergoing changes, not least with the levo-norgestrel intrauterine devices, with a renewed use of the vaginal app…

The rather gynecologically oriented August issue has an initial focus on two of the most difficult conditions a gynecologist can encounter, anorexia nervosa and chronic pelvic pain. In the former condition gynecologists, psychiatrists and g…

At the end of the month of May, colleagues in the Nordic countries and some others from further afield gather for the fourth time to discuss endometriosis, a disease that may for many women spoil years of what should be the best time of lif…

From the Editorial Board we wish all who read this a good and successful year 2013, – it is our official 92nd publication year. We urge all our subscribers in the Nordic countries to register for the online version of the journal, if they h…

At the start of a new year we are at AOGS hopeful that the status of journal will rise in it′s 93rd year, both as regards standards, downloads, citations and impact. It is often pleasant and surprising to hear positive comments on the journ…

The progesterone containing intrauterine device has been one of the major advances in women's health during recent years and it's potentials are not yet fully exploited. With firmly Finnish origins, it is not only the contraceptive actions,…

We are coming into the autumn months now, with the days getting shorter at northerly latitudes, and it may be a good time to not let go of this issue of the journal just yet, but now that you have opened it anyway to sit down and run throug…

The April issue of the journal was a novelty, which the readers hopefully liked. A thematic and substantial volume done in collaboration with authors from several parts of the world and lead by experts on the issue in the Western hemisphere…

The annual incidence of pelvic endometriosis among women aged 15-49 years and up to age 69 years was ascertained for the Icelandic population between 1981 and 2000 by using Iceland's extensive record linkage systems. Comprehensive, state-fi…

At the end of the first decade of the 21st century much of what was taken for granted is changing. This month the journal touches on several matters of central interest which should not be by-passed. Margit Dueholm, our Editor in Aarhus, De…

This month's issue is largely an obstetric one. Over the publication year we have a more or less even distribution of gynecology and obstetrics, but it can happen that an overweight of one or the other is created among accepted articles, ju…