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Endometriosis and social class: an Asian experience

Arumugam K, Welluppilai S

Asia Oceania J Obstet Gynaecol, 1993 Sep;19(3):231-4.

The social class distribution in 147 patients confirmed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy was done to see if the disease was associated with affluence. Two hundred and eighty-one patients confirmed not to have endometriosis was used as controls. The patients were derived from a background population for which the social class characteristics was known. Endometriosis was significantly (p < 0.001) associated with social class 1 and 2. However there was no association between social class distribution and the severity of the disease developed.

Matched MeSH terms: Endometriosis/epidemiology*

In reply

Hamdan M, Cheong Y

Obstet Gynecol, 2015 Jun;125(6):1499.

PMID: 26000533 DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000892

Matched MeSH terms: Endometriosis/epidemiology*

Endometriosis and social class

Arumugam K, Templeton AA

Med J Aust, 1990 Nov 05;153(9):567.

PMID: 2233493

Matched MeSH terms: Endometriosis/epidemiology*

Endometriosis and race

Arumugam K, Templeton AA

Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol, 1992 May;32(2):164-5.

PMID: 1520204

The pelvic findings of 202 infertile women undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were compared to that of 464 infertile women undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Endometriosis was significantly more common in the women from Kuala Lumpur (51% against 22%, p less than 0.001). There was however no significant difference seen in the severity of the disease (AFS Classification, 1985). These findings confirm our clinical impression that endometriosis is more common in Asian women when compared to Caucasian women.

Matched MeSH terms: Endometriosis/epidemiology

The pattern of the pathology of ovarian tumours in pregnancy in the Singapore-Malaysia region

Sinnathuray TA

Med J Malaya, 1971 Sep;26(1):53-5.

PMID: 4258576

Matched MeSH terms: Endometriosis/epidemiology*

Influence of endometriosis on assisted reproductive technology outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hamdan M, Omar SZ, Dunselman G, Cheong Y

Obstet Gynecol, 2015 Jan;125(1):79-88.

PMID: 25560108 DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000592

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of endometriosis on assisted reproductive technology (ART) outcomes and to review if surgical treatment of endometriosis before ART affects the outcomes.

DATA SOURCES: We searched studies published between 1980 and 2014 on endometriosis and ART outcome. We searched MEDLINE, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Cochrane databases and performed a manual search.

METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION: A total of 1,346 articles were identified, and 36 studies were eligible to be included for data synthesis. We included published cohort studies and randomized controlled trials.

TABULATION, INTEGRATION, AND RESULTS: Compared with women without endometriosis, women with endometriosis undertaking in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection have a similar live birth rate per woman (odds ratio [OR] 0.94, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84-1.06, 13 studies, 12,682 patients, I=35%), a lower clinical pregnancy rate per woman (OR 0.78, 95% CI 0.65-0.94), 24 studies, 20,757 patients, I=66%), a lower mean number of oocyte retrieved per cycle (mean difference -1.98, 95% CI -2.87 to -1.09, 17 studies, 17,593 cycles, I=97%), and a similar miscarriage rate per woman (OR 1.26, 95% CI (0.92-1.70, nine studies, 1,259 patients, I=0%). Women with more severe disease (American Society for Reproductive Medicine III-IV) have a lower live birth rate, clinical pregnancy rate, and mean number of oocytes retrieved when compared with women with no endometriosis.

CONCLUSION: Women with and without endometriosis have comparable ART outcomes in terms of live births, whereas those with severe endometriosis have inferior outcomes. There is insufficient evidence to recommend surgery routinely before undergoing ART.

Matched MeSH terms: Endometriosis/epidemiology*

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