Louise F. Wilson

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of heavy menstrual bleeding among Australian women from young adulthood to midlife (22-48 years) and investigate the characteristics of women who experience this condition; to investigate the relations…

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in women. We aimed to assess whether adding female-specific risk factors to traditional factors could improve CVD risk prediction. METHODS: We used a cohort of wome…

STUDY QUESTION: What is the estimated prevalence and incidence of uterine fibroids diagnosed in Australian women of reproductive age? SUMMARY ANSWER: An estimated 7.3% of Australian women had a diagnosis of uterine fibroids by the age of 4…

We examined relationships between combinations of protective factors (healthy weight, never smoking, and at least moderate levels of physical activity) and moderate or substantial limitations of physical function (PF) versus minimal PF limi…

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have called into question the long-held belief that hysterectomy without oophorectomy protects against ovarian cancer. This population-based longitudinal record-linkage study aimed to explore this relationship, ov…

AIMS: There is limited longitudinal research that has looked at the longer term incidence of depressive symptoms, comparing women with a hysterectomy to women without a hysterectomy. We aimed to investigate the association between hysterect…

BACKGROUND: Although rates have declined, hysterectomy is still a frequent gynaecological procedure. To date, there has been no systematic quantification of the relationships between early/mid-life exposures and hysterectomy. We performed a…

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion and number of cancers occurring in Australia in 2010 attributable to menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use. METHODS: We estimated the population attributable fraction for cancers causally associated wi…