Marie‐Christine Boutron‐Ruault

OBJECTIVES: While it has been reported that women with uterine fibroids or endometriosis are commonly overweight and hypertensive, the association between non-malignant gynecological diseases and the risk of hypertension has been little stu…

Objective: It has been reported that women with uterine fibroids are more often overweight and hypertensive but the prospective relationship between benign gynecological diseases and the subsequent risk of hypertension remains unknown The a…

BACKGROUND: Thyroid cancers are threefold more frequent in women than in men. A role of reproductive or hormonal factors has been suggested but with contradictory results. We investigated potential associations between history of hysterecto…

STUDY QUESTION: Are body size across the life course and adult height associated with endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Endometriosis is associated with lean body size during childhood, adolescence and adulthood; tall total adult height; and …

BACKGROUND: Because endometriosis is diagnosed predominantly in young women, exposures occurring during childhood or adolescence may have a major impact on the disease. However, potential risk factors during this time period have received l…

BACKGROUND: An association between melanoma and endometriosis has been reported, but most findings relied on case-control studies or a limited number of melanoma cases, and therefore the available evidence is weak. Moreover, the effect of o…