The prevalence of infertility in the Gambia is increasing from 9.0% in 1998 to 14.3% in 2017. Tubal factor was the predominant leading cause for decades, but recent reviews suggest that male factor is driving the epidermic of infertility worldwide. Therefore, the aim of this study was to ...
Infertility and outcomes for infertile women in Otago and Southland To establish the burden of infertility in women residing in Otago and Southland.A survey of women aged 25-50 years residing in Otago and Southland was cond... R Antoinette,NP Dickson,P Lianne,... - 《New Zealand Medical Jou...
In addition to the physical health problems including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), infertility, ectopic pregnancy, chronic pelvic pain, cervical cancer, and urethral stricture [13, 14], diagnosis with STI will have a negative psychosocial and economic impact on the patient and their family [...
Men who have sex with men have, in recent years, become the group at greater risk of acquiring STIs worldwide: higher than female sex workers, as well as the general population [25,26,27,28]. Extragenital STIs in MSM are frequent [6,29,30], mostly asymptomatic [16], and where und...
Overweight and obesity in childhood have significant impact on both physical and psychological health; for example, overweight and obesity are associated with Hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, abnormal glucose tolerance, and infertility. In addition, psychological disorders such as depression occur with increased...
Further, patients, especially women, with morbidities of chronic genital schistosomiasis, like infertility and vaginal discharge, fear marginalization when accessing health services as the symptoms resemble those of sexually transmitted dis- eases [27]. The life cycle of schistosome infection [7] ...
Background Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is considered to be one of the most common endocrine disorders among women of reproductive age. It is known to be one of the main causes of infertility. The worldwide prevalence is estimated to be 6–7%; however, the country-specific prevalence es...
Pregnancy and Infertility Obesity can affect fertility due to hormonal alterations that include: increased levels of gonadatropins and androgens which may cause anovulation, reduction in sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), and increasing biologically active free androgens which are associated with anovul...
However, the presence of M. hominis (MH) has been correlated with the development of pelvic in- flammation, spontaneous abortions and infertility [16]. Despite the lack of statistical significance, the average MH load was higher in women with signs and/or symp- toms than without this ...
The classical and clinical gold standard methods for vaginal infection diagnosis are physical examination, self-reported symptoms, pH of vaginal fluid, microscopy, and the whiff test23,24,25, which are usually applied in hospitals and clinical facilities worldwide9. Meanwhile, the gold standard in ...