Fibroid Awareness Month !
July is Fibroid Awareness Month, It’s an initiative created to get attention to uterine fibroids, a condition that creates challenges for millions of women around the world. Fibroid Awareness Month is also planned to encourage additional research for this common but often under-discussed condition.
A fibroid starts as a
normal muscle cell in the uterus. For unknown reasons, this single cell grows
and multiplies into a cluster of cells that form the fibroid. Fibroids are
stimulated to grow by estrogen (a hormone produce by the ovaries) and blood
flow. During menopause, as the estrogen level naturally declines, the fibroid
tumor often shrinks on its own.
- The following risk factors may contribute to
development of fibroids:
- - Family history.
- - Ethnicity. African American women are
2-3 times more likely than other women to develop fibroids.
- - Increased estrogen levels.
- - Hypertension and obesity.
- - Red meat consumption. Available evidence
suggests that women who eat more than one serving per day of red meat have a
70% greater risk for uterine myoma, compared with women who eat the least.
- - Alcohol consumption. Women who had one
or more drinks of alcohol per day, specifically beer, had more than a 50%
increased risk for leiomyomata.
- Completely noninvasive — no
surgery and no blood loss
- No hospital stay
- Quick return to normal
activities
- Preserves the uterus, cervix
and ovaries
- Significant improvement in
quality of life:
- Decrease in menstrual bleeding
from symptomatic fibroids
- Decrease in urinary
dysfunction, pelvic pain and/or pressure
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