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OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain is a complex health problem affecting about one-fifth of the European population. It is a leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide, with serious personal, relational and socioeconomic consequences. Chro…

INTRODUCTION: Infertility adversely affects the sexual reproductive health and overall quality of life of people. Recent estimates show that about one in six people (both men and women) experience infertility in their lifetime. This scoping…

OBJECTIVE: To determine if the introduction of value-based healthcare (VBHC) in fertility care can help to create realistic expectations in patients resulting in increased patient value, by demonstrating the relevance of defining outcome me…

PURPOSE: The Lifelines Reproductive Origins of Adult Health and Disease (Lifelines-ROAHD) cohort provides a uniquely detailed dataset allowing investigations of determinants of reproductive health as well as the influence of reproductive ev…

OBJECTIVES: This study investigates the association of daily physical exercise with pain symptoms in endometriosis. We also examined whether an individual's typical weekly (ie, habitual) exercise frequency influences (ie, moderates) the rel…

PurposePrevious studies have identified associations between individual reproductive factors and chronic disease risk among postmenopausal women. However, few have investigated the association of different markers of reproductive function, …

PURPOSE: The Swedish Maternal Microbiome (SweMaMi) project was initiated to better understand the dynamics of the microbiome in pregnancy, with longitudinal microbiome sampling, shotgun metagenomics, extensive questionnaires and health regi…

PurposeThe Swedish Pancreatitis Cohort (SwePan) was designed to study long-term outcomes following an episode of acute pancreatitis. It can also be used to study various risk factors for developing acute pancreatitis.ParticipantsThe SwePan …

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to examine the association between migraine and various psychiatric and somatic comorbidities in Japan. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study using existing data of the 2017 Japan National Health and Wellness Survey (NH…

INTRODUCTION: Progesterone is an essential hormone involved in the process of implantation and pregnancy maintenance. Evidence from recent studies has supported the importance of serum progesterone level around the time of embryo transfer i…

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of diminished ovarian reserve (DOR), a common gynaecological disorder, is approximately 10% across the world. Failure in early diagnosis and treatment may result in continuous decreases in ovarian function and t…

INTRODUCTION: Endometrial thickness is an important parameter to evaluate endometrial receptivity. An appropriate endometrial thickness is necessary for both embryo implantation and maintaining normal pregnancy. Women with thin endometrium …

INTRODUCTION: Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) affecting the rectum or sigmoid colon is associated with infertility, severe pain and decreased quality of life. As most women with DIE are young, many have a pregnancy intention. Treatmen…

INTRODUCTION: Women with repeated implantation failure (RIF) and unexplained recurrent miscarriage (RM) are proposed to be at opposite ends of the implantation spectrum, with RM representing an overly receptive endometrium (implantation of …

OBJECTIVES: Explore inequalities in risk factors, mental and physical health morbidity in non-pregnant women of reproductive age in contact with mental health services and how these vary per ethnicity. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. …

OBJECTIVE: To explore the views of women over 40 years in choosing and using contraception, and to inform how contraceptive counselling for this age group could be improved. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Fourteen women aged 40-52 years…

INTRODUCTION: Chronic pain is a common symptom significantly affecting the quality of life of breast cancer survivors. Despite the achievement of pharmacological interventions, the barriers associated with this approach such as inaccessibil…

OBJECTIVES: To examine women's perceptions of endometriosis-associated disease burden and its impact on life decisions and goal attainment. DESIGN: An anonymous online survey was distributed in October 2018 through the social media network…

OBJECTIVES: We determined if the time interval between two ovulation induction intrauterine artificial insemination (IUI) treatment cycles should be extended by one or more natural menstrual cycles in patients undergoing successive cycles o…

OBJECTIVE: To determine intervention effects and synthesise qualitative research that explored women with or at high risk of kidney disease experiences of shared decision-making in relation to their reproductive health, family planning opti…

INTRODUCTION: Placebo-controlled surgical designs are recommended to ascertain treatment effects for elective surgeries when there is genuine doubt about the effectiveness of the surgery. Some elective surgeries for pain have been unable to…

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to evaluate the prevalence, timing of onset and duration of symptoms of depression in the perinatal period (PND) in women with depression, according to whether they had a history of depression prior to their fi…

OBJECTIVE: To establish the prevalence of long-term and serious harms of medical cannabis for chronic pain. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO and CENTRAL from inception to 1 April 2020. …

ObjectiveTo identify measures used within Denmark evaluating any type of intervention designed to facilitate patient involvement in healthcare.DesignEnvironmental scan employing rapid review methods.Data sourcesMEDLINE, PsycInfo and CINAHL …

OBJECTIVES: To establish visualised prediction models of low fertilisation rate (LFR) and total fertilisation failure (TFF) for patients in conventional in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study. SETTING: D…