Sentences with phrase «oestrogen during»

What's more, the decline in verbal memory seemed to be related to hormone levels: women who experienced high levels of oestrogen during early pregnancy and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol throughout pregnancy experienced the most marked fall in verbal memory performance.

«Although both hormones are increased during pregnancy, there is relatively more progesterone than oestrogen during pregnancy,» Faas says.

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The increased level of oestrogen and blood in your body during pregnancy is thought to be the cause of pregnancy rhinitis.

A major risk factor for breast cancer is thought to be the amount of oestrogen a woman is exposed to during her lifetime, and hence the number of menstrual cycles she experiences.

BPA is an endocrine - active (weakly oestrogenic) chemical but its potency is over a million-fold less than the pregnancy oestrogens that circulate to the fetus during normal pregnancy, so the BPA is a drop in the ocean compared with this.

This likely also plays a part in the fact that one in seven women experience some degree of postpartum depression, as levels of oestrogen drop dramatically from their elevated state during pregnancy.

In addition, during puberty and into the third decade, oestrogen has an anabolic effect on the osteoblast and an apoptotic effect on the osteoclast, increasing bone mineral acquisition in axial and appendicular bone.

The ovaries produce eggs during the heat cycle and the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone.