作者
Marina Kvaskoff, Fan Mu, Kathryn L Terry, Holly R Harris, Elizabeth M Poole, Leslie Farland, Stacey A Missmer
发表日期
2015/7/1
来源
Human reproduction update
卷号
21
期号
4
页码范围
500-516
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
BACKGROUND
Despite an estimated prevalence of 10% in women, the etiology of endometriosis remains poorly understood. Over recent decades, endometriosis has been associated with risk of several chronic diseases, such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, asthma/atopic diseases and cardiovascular diseases. A deeper understanding of these associations is needed as they may provide new leads into the causes or consequences of endometriosis. This review summarizes the available epidemiological findings on the associations between endometriosis and other chronic diseases and discusses hypotheses for underlying mechanisms, potential sources of bias and methodological complexities.
METHODS
We performed a comprehensive search of the PubMed/Medline and ISI Web of Knowledge databases for all studies reporting on the associations between …
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