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  1. The effect of pregnancy and breastfeeding on a female’s bone mineral density (BMD) is controversial. This prospective study aims to investigate the effect of parity on BMD among pre-menopausal multiparous fema...

    Authors: Shahnaz Akil, Huda Al-Mohammed, Norah Al-Batati, Maissa Tirsen, Ahad Al-Otaibi, Aram AlZahrani, Deena Bakhder, Ruba AlSubaie and Samar AbuAlsaud
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:380
  2. Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) involves vaginal dryness (VD), pain during sexual activity (SAPain), vaginal itching (VI), burning, pain, and symptoms in the urinary organs. Non-ablative radiofrequen...

    Authors: Cintia Pinheiro, Teresa Costa, Raira Amorim de Jesus, Raquel Campos, Rosa Brim, Alcina Teles, Andrea Vilas Boas and Patrícia Lordêlo
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:379
  3. Childbearing may increase the future risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in mothers. However, the issue is not clear completely and not investigated in the Middle East, a region with a high burd...

    Authors: Seyyed Saeed Moazzeni, Reyhane Hizomi Arani, Samaneh Asgari, Fereidoun Azizi and Farzad Hadaegh
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:378
  4. To compare the effectiveness of 550 mg naproxen sodium versus 6 mL 2%-lidocaine intracervical block in pain lowering at the 52-mg levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) placement in young women.

    Authors: Elaine Cristina Fontes de Oliveira, Thaís Baêta, Ana Paula Caldeira Brant, Agnaldo Silva-Filho and Ana Luiza Lunardi Rocha
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:377
  5. Only 8–23% of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer patients survive for 10 years or longer. Given the need for targeted interventions to improve survival, we interviewed this relatively rare survivor population ...

    Authors: Dana Ketcher, Susan K. Lutgendorf, Susan Leighton, Marianne Matzo, Jeanne Carter, Arjun Peddireddy, Beth Y. Karlan, William P. Tew, Anil K. Sood and Eileen H. Shinn
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:376
  6. Uterine leiomyomas are the most common neoplasm affecting women and frequently cause heavy menstrual bleeding and pain. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonists provide fast symptom relief an...

    Authors: Hiroshi Hoshiai, Yoshifumi Seki, Takeru Kusumoto, Kentarou Kudou and Masataka Tanimoto
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:375
  7. Transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) has been used to treat overactive bladder (OAB), however patient experiences and views of this treatment are lacking. The aim of this study was to explore women’s...

    Authors: Ciara M. E. Daly, Lynette Loi, Jo Booth, Dalia Saidan, Karen Guerrero and Veenu Tyagi
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:374
  8. Various studies have investigated geographical variations in the incidence of hysterectomy in Western countries and analyzed socioeconomic factors to explain those variations. However, few studies have used sp...

    Authors: Aline Poliart, Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou, Mady Ouédraogo, Philippe Collart, Dominique Dubourg and Sékou Samadoulougou
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:373
  9. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main etiological factor for pre-invasive and invasive cervical cancer. HPV type-specific vaccination is being widely recommended to control the burden of disease, bu...

    Authors: Oksana Debrah, Francis Agyemang-Yeboah, Emmanuel Timmy Donkoh and Richard Harry Asmah
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:372
  10. Women's autonomy in health care decision-making is very crucial for the well-being of women themselves, their children, and the entire family members. Although studying the issue is significant to take proper ...

    Authors: Melkamu Dires Asabu and Derebe Kelkay Altaseb
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:371
  11. HIV treatment-based prevention modalities present new opportunities for women to make decisions around sex, intimacy, and prevention. The Universal test and treat (UTT) strategy, where widespread HIV testing i...

    Authors: Lario Viljoen, Graeme Hoddinott, Samantha Malunga, Nosivuyile Vanqa, Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa, Arlene Marthinus, Khanyisa Mcimeli, Virginia Bond, Janet Seeley, Peter Bock, Richard Hayes and Lindsey Reynolds
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:370
  12. Autonomy involves making independent decisions and creating lasting and equitable power relationships within families. Many factors, dependent on both the woman and her partner, can influence self-dependence, ...

    Authors: Sandrella Bou Malhab, Hala Sacre, Diana Malaeb, Nathalie Lahoud, Dalia Khachman, Joelle Azzi, Chadia Haddad and Pascale Salameh
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:369
  13. Despite the controversy surrounding the role of clinical breast exam (CBE) in modern breast cancer screening, it is widely practiced. We examined the contribution of CBE in women undergoing routine screening m...

    Authors: Tehillah S. Menes, Dan Coster, Daniel Coster and Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:368
  14. Cervical cancer is an issue of global health concern, and it seems to be the next epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa after Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This study compared the perceptions of susceptibility ...

    Authors: Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, Selorm Akaba and Sarah Ama Amoo
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:367
  15. Women are among the susceptible groups to Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) in Ardabil, north-west of Iran, despite the current global status. The underlying causes of high incidence and fatality rate of women...

    Authors: Farhad Pourfarzi, Shima Rahim Pouran, Abdollah Dargahi, Chiman Karami, Nasrin Fouladi, Hamed Zandian and Telma Zahirian Moghadam
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:366
  16. Migrants are often more vulnerable to health issues compared to host populations, and particularly the women. Therefore, migrant women’s health is important in promoting health equity in society. Participation...

    Authors: Cecilia Lindsjö, Katarina Sjögren Forss, Christine Kumlien and Margareta Rämgård
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:365
  17. Socio-cultural factors may influence the uptake of breast cancer treatments. This study aimed to explore these socio-cultural influences on treatment decision-making for women in Ghana.

    Authors: Linda Serwaa Agyemang, Claire Foster, Chris McLean, Deborah Fenlon and Richard Wagland
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:364
  18. Compared with a natural process, surgically induced menopausal women have a higher bone loss rate. This study aims to evaluate early treatment with estradiol valerate on bone turnover markers after surgically ...

    Authors: Jarika Vatrasresth, Ammarin Suwan and Krasean Panyakhamlerd
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:363
  19. In Rwanda, nearly a third of contraceptive users discontinue within the first year of use. Family planning programs often focus more on recruitment of new users as opposed to maintaining use among current user...

    Authors: Hilary Schwandt, Angel Boulware, Julia Corey, Ana Herrera, Ethan Hudler, Claudette Imbabazi, Ilia King, Jessica Linus, Innocent Manzi, Madelyn Merritt, Lyn Mezier, Abigail Miller, Haley Morris, Dieudonne Musemakweli, Uwase Musekura, Divine Mutuyimana…
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:361
  20. Violence against women (VAW) is a global challenge, and the health sector is a key entry point for survivors to receive care. The World Health Organization adopted an earlier framework for health systems respo...

    Authors: Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Rakhi Ghoshal, Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Chandni Jaishwal and Nobhojit Roy
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:360
  21. Subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate is an easy-to-use injectable contraceptive. A trained person can administer it, including women through self-injection. The objective of this systematic review an...

    Authors: Ashraf Nabhan, Farida Elshafeey, Luna Marion Mehrain, Rita Kabra and Amal Elshabrawy
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:359
  22. Regular physical activity has important health benefits for women. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of theory-based educational interventions on the improvement of physical activities of middl...

    Authors: Tayebeh Rakhshani, Zahra Khiyali, Fatemeh Masrurpour and Ali Khani Jeihooni
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:358
  23. A number of factors may determine family planning decisions; however, some may be dependent on the social and cultural context. To understand these factors, we conducted a qualitative study with family plannin...

    Authors: Duygu Karadon, Yilmaz Esmer, Bahar Ayca Okcuoglu, Sebahat Kurutas, Simay Sevval Baykal, Sarah Huber-Krum, David Canning and Iqbal Shah
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:357
  24. Understanding the factors that promote healthy lifestyle behaviors in women with polycystic ovary syndrome is of substantial importance. Health-promoting lifestyle behaviors (HPLB) have been observed to be eff...

    Authors: Iram Fatima, Sahar Yaqoob, Farhat Jamil and Amna Butt
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:356
  25. The objective of this study, the first of its kind in Kosovo, is to determine the level of Kosovo women’s knowledge and awareness of HPV infection, HPV vaccination, and its relation to cervical cancer.

    Authors: Pranvera Zejnullahu Raçi, Fitim Raçi and Teuta Hadri
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:354
  26. The significance of HPV viral load in the detection of cervical lesions is still controversial. This study analyzed the correlation between the high-risk HPV viral load and different cervical lesion degrees.

    Authors: Yang Liu, Changjun Xu, Jing Pan, Chunyi Sun, Honglin Zhou and Yushi Meng
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:353
  27. Communities exert stigma on mothers after stillbirth despite their potential to offer social support to the grieving family. Maternal healthcare-seeking behaviors are socially reinforced rendering a social net...

    Authors: Eric Ssegujja, Yusuf Mulumba, Sally Guttmacher and Michelle Andipatin
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:352
  28. Child marriage is a violation of children’s rights and it exposes them to social isolation and psychological damages. These negative effects are not limited to them and expands to the family and society as wel...

    Authors: Somayyeh Naghizadeh, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Azam Mohammadi, Marzieh Azizi, Saba Taghizadeh-Milani and Hadiseh Ganbari
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:351
  29. Women with an undetectable viral load can become pregnant and have children with no risk of HIV transmission to their sexual partners and low risk of transmission to their infants. Contemporary pregnancy inten...

    Authors: Lashanda Skerritt, Angela Kaida, Nadia O’Brien, Ann N. Burchell, Gillian Bartlett, Édénia Savoie, Isabelle Boucoiran, Rebecca Gormley, Mary Kestler, Deborah Money, Mona Loutfy and Alexandra de Pokomandy
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:350
  30. While women are taking a greater role in decisions about menopause symptom management, the legacy of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) studies persist. Despite hormone therapy (HT) being effective in reducin...

    Authors: Rifani B. Natari, Samantha A. Hollingworth, Alexandra M. Clavarino, Kaeleen D. Dingle and Treasure M. McGuire
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:348
  31. Retained products of conception (POC) following uterine evacuation can lead to adverse sequelae, including hemorrhage, endometritis, intrauterine adhesions, and reoperation. Use of procedural transvaginal sono...

    Authors: M. Alyssa Larish, E. Claire Jensen, C. Kristin Mara, C. Isabel Green, R. Matthew Hopkins, K. Shannon Laughlin-Tommaso, L. Tatnai Burnett and M. Daniel Breitkopf
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:347
  32. Fertility decline characterised by inter-birth intervals remains rather slow or stall in many countries of sub-Saharan African (SSA). Non-adherence to optimal inter-birth intervals often occasioned by low prev...

    Authors: Rotimi Felix Afolabi, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe and Martin Enock Palamuleni
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:346
  33. Utilization of basic public health services (BPHS) allows for disease prevention and management and is an essential component for protecting health. Disparities in utilization exist between rural-to-urban migr...

    Authors: Xin Hu, Mei Sun, Siyuan Tang and Lisa L. Lommel
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:344
  34. World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends quality antenatal care (ANC) for all pregnant women, as one of the strategies for achieving targets 3.1 and 3.2 of the sustainable development goals. Maternal mortali...

    Authors: Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Kenneth Setorwu Adde and Obidimma Ezezika
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:343
  35. There is limited national representative evidence on determinants of women’s acceptance of wife-beating especially; community level factors are not investigated in Ethiopia. Thus, this study aimed to assess in...

    Authors: Mastewal Arefaynie, Gedamnesh Bitew, Erkihun Tadesse Amsalu, Bereket Kefale, Amare Muche, Zinabu Fentaw, Reta Dewau, Mequannent Sharew Melaku, Melaku Yalew, Bezawit Adane, Metadel Adane, Muluken Genetu Chanie, Wolde Melese Ayele and Yitayish Damtie
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:342
  36. The inclusion of protective factors (“assets”) are increasingly supported in developing culturally grounded interventions for American Indian (AI) populations. This study sought to explore AI women’s cultural ...

    Authors: Jennifer Richards, Rachel Strom Chambers, Jaime Lynn Begay, Kendrea Jackson, Lauren Tingey, Hima Patel, Scott Carvajal, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Nicolette Teufel-Shone and Allison Barlow
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:341
  37. Abortion and stillbirths are the common obstetrics condition in Ethiopia and their effect on the next pregnancy was not well identified in resource limited settings. The aim of the study was to assess the effe...

    Authors: Berhanu Elfu Feleke, Teferi Elfu Feleke, Azezu Asres Nigussie and Eyaya Misgan
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:340
  38. Reintegrating to society is a significant challenge during burn survivors’ rehabilitation.

    Authors: Masumeh Hemmati Maslakpak, Fardin Ajoudani, Mojgan Lotfi and Vahid Alinejad
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:339
  39. Menopause, the absence of ovarian sex steroids, is frequently accompanied by emotional and physiological changes in a woman´s body, as well as oral health changes. The present study aimed to evaluate the assoc...

    Authors: Nil Yakar, Asena Türedi, Gülnur Emingil, Çağdaş Şahin, Timur Köse, Angelika Silbereisen and Nagihan Bostanci
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:338
  40. To date, there is no reliable non-invasive marker for the early detection and diagnosis of endometriosis available possibly resulting in a delayed diagnosis and consequently an unnecessary long ordeal for the ...

    Authors: Lena Birke, Dunja M. Baston-Büst, Jan-Steffen Kruessel, Tanja N. Fehm and Alexandra P. Bielfeld
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:336
  41. Violence against women particularly that is committed by an intimate partner is becoming a social and public health problem across the world. Studies show that the spatial variation in the distribution of dome...

    Authors: Elias Seid, Tesfahun Melese and Kassahun Alemu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:334
  42. Osteoarthritis is a common disease and one of the most important causes of disability in the elderly that negatively affect the quality of their life. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectivenes...

    Authors: Seyed Sajad Arfaei Chitkar, Hamid Reza Mohaddes Hakkak, Hassan Saadati, Seyed Hamid Hosseini, Yasaman Jafari and Reza Ganji
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:333

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  43. Paid work is one of the most important aspects in life among working-aged women diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite several attempts, no previous study provides a comprehensive overview from the women’s pers...

    Authors: Agneta Wennman-Larsen, Veronica Svärd, Kristina Alexanderson and Emilie Friberg
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:332
  44. Women living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are rarely addressed in research and may be overrepresented within key populations requiring additional support to access HCV care and treatment. We constructed the H...

    Authors: Margo E. Pearce, Sofia R. Bartlett, Amanda Yu, Jess Lamb, Cheryl Reitz, Stanley Wong, Maria Alvarez, Mawuena Binka, Héctor Velásquez Garcia, Dahn Jeong, Emilia Clementi, Prince Adu, Hasina Samji, Jason Wong, Jane Buxton, Eric Yoshida…
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:330

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