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Period-tracking apps offer new insights into women's health, potentially revealing patterns in mood, behavior, and vital signs across daily, weekly, seasonal, and menstrual cycles.

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This short Nature Medicine piece discusses how period-tracking apps can provide new insights into women’s health by capturing information related to menstrual cycles. It is framed as a preview/commentary rather than a full original study, and the provided text does not describe a specific dataset, study population, or primary results. The key caveat is that the accessible content is limited to subscription/preview material and lacks methodological detail needed to evaluate findings. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Period-tracking apps offer new insights on women’s health. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 27,99 € / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe to this journal Receive 12 print issues and online access 251,40 € per year only 20,95 € per issue Buy this article - Purchase on SpringerLink - Instant access to the full article PDF. 39,95 € Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout References Eisenberg, V. H., Weil, C., Chodick, G. & Shalev, V. BJOG 125, 55–62 (2018). McCance, R. A., Luff, M. C. & Widdowson, E. E. J. Hyg. 37, 571–611 (1937). Treloar, A. E, Boynton, R. E, Behn, B. G. & Brown, B. W. Int. J. Fertil. 12, 81–84 (1967). Pierson, E., Althoff, A. & Leskovec, J. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05748 (2017). Alvergne, A., Vlajic Wheeler, M. & Högqvist Tabor, V. Evol. Med. Public Health eoy018 (2018). Gold, E. B, Wells, C. & Rasor, M. O. J. Womens Health 25, 865–874 (2016). Bertone-Johnson, E. R. et al. Hum. Reprod. 29, 1987–1994 (2014). Urteaga, I. et al. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00117 (2017). Alvergne, A. & Högqvist Tabor, V. Trends Ecol. Evol. 33, 399–414 (2018). Author information Authors and Affiliations Corresponding author Rights and permissions About this article Cite this article Chakradhar, S. Discovery cycle. Nat Med 24, 1082–1085 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0149-9 Published: Version of record: Issue date: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0149-9 This article is cited by - Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs Nature Human Behaviour (2021)

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Menstrual Cycle Cooperative Behavior Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Humans Mobile Applications Reproductive Health

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