Observational studyJournal of minimally invasive gynecology
Adiposity and Endometriosis Severity and Typology.
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- Evaluating the Role of Lipid Accumulation Product Index in Endometriosis: Findings from NHANES and Mendelian Randomization.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Association Between Body Fat Percentage and Endometriosis Severity Based on American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists 2021 Endometriosis Classification.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Gene Polymorphisms Determining Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin Levels and Endometriosis Risk.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Endometriosis and hypertriglyceridemia: Why do we care about severity and typology?The Utah women's health review · 2025Article
- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Eutopic Endometrium Tissue and Risk of Endometriosis: Findings from the Investigating Mixtures of Pollutants and Endometriosis in Tissue (IMPLANT) Study.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- Validation of administrative health data for the identification of endometriosis diagnosis.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- The kisspeptin system in and beyond reproduction: exploring intricate pathways and potential links between endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2024Review
- An artificial intelligence approach for investigating multifactorial pain-related features of endometriosis.PloS one · 2024Article
- A Pilot Study on the Co-existence of Diabetes and Endometriosis in Reproductive-Age Women: Potential for Endometriosis Progression.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2023Article
- Examining the co-occurrence of endometriosis and polycystic ovarian syndrome.AJOG global reports · 2023Article
- Is There a Correlation between the Second-to-Four Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Endometriosis? Results of a Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- What is the link between endometriosis and adiposity?Obstetrics & gynecology science · 2022Article
- Endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome are diametric disorders.Evolutionary applications · 2021Review
- The Formidable yet Unresolved Interplay between Endometriosis and Obesity.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2021Review
- Voluntary Wheel Running Reduces Vesicle Development in an Endometriosis Animal Model Through Modulation of Immune Parameters.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Article
- Lesion Genotype Modifies High-Fat Diet Effects on Endometriosis Development in Mice.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
STUDY
objectivePrior research has collectively shown that endometriosis is inversely related to women's adiposity. The aim of this study was to assess whether this inverse relationship holds true by disease severity and typology.
designCross-sectional study among women with no prior diagnosis of endometriosis.
settingFourteen clinical centers in Salt Lake City, UT, and San Francisco, CA. PATIENTS: A total of 495 women (of which 473 were analyzed), aged 18-44 years, were enrolled in the operative cohort of the Endometriosis, Natural History, Diagnosis, and Outcomes (ENDO) Study.
interventionsGynecologic laparoscopy/laparotomy regardless of clinical indication. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsParticipants underwent anthropometric assessments, body composition measurements, and evaluations of body fat distribution ratios before surgery. Surgeons completed a standardized operative report immediately after surgery to capture revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine staging (I-IV) and typology of disease (superficial endometriosis [SE], ovarian endometrioma [OE], and deep infiltrating endometriosis [DIE]). Linear mixed models, taking into account within-clinical-center correlation, were used to generate least square means (95% confidence intervals) to assess differences in adiposity measures by endometriosis stage (no endometriosis, I-IV) and typology (no endometriosis, SE, DIE, OE, OE + DIE) adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, and parity. Although most confidence intervals were wide and overlapping, 3 general impressions emerged: (1) women with incident endometriosis had the lowest anthropometric/body composition indicators compared with those without incident endometriosis, (2) women with stage I or IV endometriosis had lower indicators compared with women with stage II or III, and (3) women with OE and/or DIE tended to have the lowest indicators, whereas women with SE had the highest indicators.
conclusionOur research highlights that the relationship between women's adiposity and endometriosis severity and typology may be more complicated than prior research indicates.
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