Researchers at the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), George Washington
University, and the Endometriosis Association conducted
a cross sectional survey of 3,680
women with surgically diagnosed endometriosis. The study was published in the
journal, Human Reproduction [2002;17(10):2715-
2724]. In this study, an increased incidence of many chronic and autoimmune
diseases in women with endometriosis was found compared to the general
population. Allergies occurred in
over 60% of the endometriosis
patients compared to 18% in the general population. Hypothyroidism was seven
times more common, chronic fatigue syndrome was greater than 100 times more
common, and fibromyalgia was nearly twice as common in endometriosis patients.
Endometriosis patients also had an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases
such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren’s syndrome.
DETOX
A
study appearing in Toxicology Science [2001; 59(1):147-59]
demonstrated that animals with elevated serum levels of dioxin and chemicals
similar to dioxin had a high prevalence of
endometriosis,
and
the severity of
disease correlated
with the serum
concentration of
the
toxic chemical.
Research appearing
in Human
Reproduction
[2005;
20(1):279-
85 (ISSN: 0268-1161)] tested blood levels of PCBs in women with
endometriosis and concluded that anti- estrogenic PCBs may be associated with
the development of endometriosis. Research appearing in Fertility and Sterility [2005; 84(2):305-12 (ISSN:
1556-5653)] also found a connection between the body burden of PCBs and similar
chemicals to the incidence of endometriosis.
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