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Article: Research on spontaneous abortion discussed by R. Koivunen and co-researchers.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- October 30, 2008
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"Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) suffer from anovulatory infertility and hospital-based studies suggest that they have an increased risk of spontaneous abortion. Our aim was to investigate the proportion of women, with self-reported oligo-amenorrhea and/or hirsutism in a general population, who had suffered from infertility, the percentage of them managing to conceive and their rate of spontaneous abortion," scientists writing in the journal Human Reproduction report (see also Spontaneous Abortion).
"At age 31, a postal questionnaire including questions about hirsutism and oligo-amenorrhea was sent to all women from the population-based Northern ...