Early-life factors and endometriosis risk.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study early-life factors in relation to endometriosis risk in adulthood.

Design

Population-based case-control study.

Setting

Integrated healthcare system.

Patient(s)

Cases (n = 310) were women diagnosed for the first time with endometriosis between the years 1996 and 2001, and controls (n = 727) were women without a diagnosis of endometriosis randomly selected from the healthcare system population.

Intervention(s)

None.

Main outcome measure(s)

Adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associations between intrauterine diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure, maternal smoking, mother's age at delivery, firstborn status, birth weight, fetal number, prematurity, and regular soy formula feeding during infancy and en

SUBMITTER: Upson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5328429 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature