Kate Day

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2006-2025

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
other 2025
The Impact of Physical Activity on Quality of Life for individualsLiving Endometriosis. A Systematic Review

Rationale for the review Endometriosis is a long-term health condition where tissue similar to the womb lining grows elsewhere in the body. This can cause physical and mental symptoms such as chronic pain, fatigue, and brain fog that can be…

article 2006
Menstrual effluent in endometriosis shows no difference in volume, VEGF-A, MMP2 and MMP9 or sFLT
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60858-9

Since retrograde menstruation is considered a key event in the aetiology of endometriosis, this study sought to determine whether the menstrual effluent of women with this condition is different from that of those with a normal pelvis. As t…

article 2006
Reduced levels of VEGF-A and MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity and increased TNF-α in menstrual endometrium and effluent in women with menorrhagia
·doi:10.1093/humrep/del089

BACKGROUND: Heavy regular menstrual periods (menorrhagia) are an important cause of ill health in women and remain the leading indication for hysterectomy. Abnormalities of the endometrial blood vessels are among the possible causes of this…