ArticleAmerican journal of obstetrics and gynecology2020
Dairy consumption during adolescence and endometriosis risk.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- An Overview of Essential Nutritional Strategies and Products in the Treatment of Endometriosis.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Food groups and nutrients consumption and risk of endometriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Nutrition journal · 2022Pooled it
- Female dietary patterns and outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF): a systematic literature review.Nutrition journal · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Dietary Interventions in the Treatment of Endometriosis: a Systematic Review.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2022Pooled it
- Relationship Between Dairy Products Intake and Risk of Endometriosis: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Food and dietary supplement expenditures associated with dietary self-management among women with endometriosis: A cross-sectional study in Hungary.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Causal effects of endometriosis on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D: Evidence from Mendelian randomization study.Medicine · 2026Article
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- Nutrition and Endometriosis: Current Evidence on Dietary Risk Factors and Clinical Impact - A Narrative Review.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- Lifestyle and Selected Issues Related to Sexual Health: The Importance of Specialist Care in Balneology, Dietetics, and Physiotherapy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Dietary factors and risk for endometriosis: a Mendelian randomization analysis.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- Diet and Endometriosis: An Umbrella Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Endometriosis in Adolescence: A Narrative Review of the Psychological and Clinical Implications.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Clinical evaluation and management of endometriosis: 2024 guideline for Korean patients from the Korean Society of Endometriosis.Obstetrics & gynecology science · 2025Article
- Role of macronutrients, dairy products, fruits and vegetables in occurrence and progression of endometriosis: A summary of current evidence in a systematic review.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2024Article
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- Low Diet Quality and Nutritional Knowledge in Women with Endometriosis: A Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Importance of an Interdisciplinary Approach in the Treatment of Women with Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2023Article
- The relationship between dietary micronutrients and endometriosis: A case-control study.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2023Article
- Association between dietary inflammatory index and risk of endometriosis: A population-based analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundModifiable risk factors such as diet may be important in both the etiology and progression of endometriosis as well as the prevalence of pain symptoms and infertility associated with this condition. In adults, higher intake of dairy has been associated with a lower risk of endometriosis diagnosis. There is currently no literature on whether dairy intake during adolescence, a potentially critical window of exposure, influences endometriosis risk.
objectiveThe objectige of the study was to evaluate the association between consumption of dairy foods in adolescence and the risk of laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis. STUDY
designThis was a prospective cohort study, the Nurses' Health Study II, which has prospectively collected data since 1989. In 1998, when participants were aged 34-51 years, they completed a 124 item food frequency questionnaire about their high school diet. Cases were defined as those who self-reported laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis. Cox proportional hazard models were used to calculate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between dairy foods and laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis.
resultsAmong women who completed the questionnaire about their high school diet in 1998, 581 cases of laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis were diagnosed among 32,868 premenopausal women from 1998 to 2013. Women who consumed more than 4 servings per day of dairy foods during adolescence had a 32% lower risk of laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis during adulthood (95% confidence interval, 0.47-0.96; P
conclusionOur findings suggest that dairy consumption, specifically yogurt and ice cream intake, in adolescence may reduce the risk of subsequent endometriosis diagnosis. Future studies in adolescent populations are needed to confirm these results.
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