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.







Uterine fibroids are the most common benign (non-cancerous) tumors within the female reproductive system. While the majority of uterine fibroids are diagnosed and treated in women between the ages of 35 and 54, fibroids can occur in women under the age of 35.
They are common – some studies show that up to 80% of women will have fibroids at some point in their lives.

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.



Why  UFE?

Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) is a nonsurgical permanent treatment for fibroids. Compared to the surgical options .

Benefits :

  • 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

DON'T LET UTERINE FIBROIDS  GET YOU DOWN


Request a free screening  from the fibroid experts

Call us today  866-800-2346

To schedule a free screening for this and other conditions at a VidaVascular office in northern Virginia (convenient to Springfield, Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington, Woodbridge), Maryland (convenient to National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Waldorf, La Plata, and Clinton), and Washington DC.

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