BACKGROUND: Personal care products (PCPs) may contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that can impact menstrual health. Despite widespread usage, little is known about the associations of PCP usage, EDC avoidance, and menstrual cycle …
Some medical professional organizations have advocated for including the menstrual cycle as a vital sign in adolescence, but not in adulthood. However, documenting menstrual cycle patterns is not routine clinical or research practice. Vital…
The menstrual cycle is an underutilized but powerful tool for understanding gynecological and general health across the lifespan. However, menstrual-related concerns are often underdiagnosed or ignored. Reasons for the underdiagnosis and ne…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between ovarian reserve biomarkers and future fertility among late reproductive-age women. DESIGN: Cohort study of participants enrolled in Time to Conceive (TTC), a time-to-pregnancy cohort study of…
BACKGROUND: Extracellular vesicles (EVs), membrane-bound particles containing a variety of RNA types, DNA, proteins, and other macromolecules, are now appreciated as an important means of communication between cells and tissues, both in nor…
BACKGROUND: Local inflammation plays an important role in normal folliculogenesis and ovulation, and conditions of chronic systemic inflammation, such as obesity and polycystic ovarian syndrome, can disrupt normal follicular dynamics. OBJE…
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The goal of this review was to evaluate whether the fields available in iOS mobile phone apps for recording menstrual cycle symptoms are able to be harmonized across platforms for potential use in research, such as aggreg…