East and South East Asian Ethnicity and Moderate-to-Severe Endometriosis

Christina Williams, Williams C, Alicia J. Long, Heather Noga, Catherine Allaire, Allaire C, Mohamed A. Bedaiwy, Sarka Lisonkova, Paul J. Yong
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology · 2018 · vol. 26(3) , pp. 507–515 · doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2018.06.009 · PMID:29935381 · W2809463081
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East and South East Asian women in this tertiary center had higher odds of diagnosed moderate-to-severe endometriosis, including palpable nodules, endometriomas, and advanced surgical stages.

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STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate ethnic differences for moderate-to-severe endometriosis. DESIGN: Analysis of a prospective registry (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS: A total of 1594 women with pelvic pain and/or endometriosis. INTERVENTIONS: None MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: On logistic regression, adjusting for potential confounders, East/South East Asians were 8.3 times more likely than whites to have a previous diagnosis of stage III/IV endometriosis before referral (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 8.33; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.74-18.57), 2.7 times more likely to have a palpable nodule (aOR, 2.66; 95% CI, 1.57-4.52), 4.1 times more likely to have an endometrioma on ultrasound (aOR, 4.10; 95% CI, 2.68-6.26), and 10.9 times more likely to have stage III/IV endometriosis at the time of surgery at our center (aOR, 10.87; 95% CI, 4.34-27.21). CONCLUSION: Moderate-to-severe endometriosis was more common in women with East or South East Asian ethnicity in our tertiary referral center.  This could be explained by East/South East Asians with minimal to mild disease being less likely to seek care or genetic/environmental differences that increase the risk of more severe disease among East/South East Asians. (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02911090.).

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endometriosischronic_pelvic_pain

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Endometriosis Adult Adult Asia Asia Asia Asian People Asian People British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia Cohort Studies Cohort Studies Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Ethnicity Ethnicity

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