Sentences with phrase «developing uterine fibroids»

Women who are African American or are overweight face a greater risk of developing uterine fibroids.

Three out of four women develop uterine fibroids by age 50, said one of the study's authors, Jason Y.Y. Wong, Sc.D, of Stanford University School of Medicine.

Believe it or not, most women (up to 75 or 80 %) develop uterine fibroids, but many never know it, since the non-cancerous growths can be so small they don't trigger any symptoms.

A study from the National Institute of Health suggested the majority of women will develop uterine fibroids at some point during their lifetime.

Not exact matches

Women who have high levels of both testosterone and estrogen in midlife may face a greater risk of developing benign tumors on the uterus called uterine fibroids than women with low levels of the hormones, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In a study of medical records gathered on hundreds of thousands of African - American women, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have evidence that women with a common form of hair loss have an increased chance of developing uterine leiomyomas, or fibroids.

I don't know of having highly developed, or even overdeveloped, stomach muscles would necessarily cause a problem, but there is something there that we should discuss, which is if people have had abdominal trauma, meaning maybe a hernia surgery, or a C - section, or an ovarectomy, or any kind of abdominal trauma that may cause scarring or damage, or even if a woman has really bad uterine fibroids, for example, which can cause pelvic obstruction, anything in the abdominal pelvic area that creates scar tissue, whether it be surgical, or impact trauma, or what have you, has the potential, because the abdomen and pelvis rest up against your intestines, has the potential to impede the movement of stuff through the intestines.

I did not start developing these noncancerous tumors until after I had my first child, and now that I am still having complications (caused from the size and regrowth of these fibroids even after their removal from surgery) more so than before can pueraria mirifica (the estro balance brand with d - indolylmethane) be used to treat (etc. reduce the size, pain, and regrowth of uterine fibroid tumors)?

Estrogen and progesterone are at their highest levels during a woman's childbearing years, this is why uterine fibroids are thought to develop during this time.