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Oh, and I woke up early this morning, got my period last night and

had that morning run to the bathroom to change protection. I was

thinking about that population based study of the women in that town

in Italy that someone posted a few days ago.

I was in a study in school that lasted 10 year funded through the

American Health Foundation. They were trying to establish national

health guidelines for american children and try out a new health

education program called Know Your Body or KYB. From the age of 8

through 13 we had yearly blood, skin fold, heart rate, blood pressure

tests done. I was not in the control group so we were exposed to lots

of extra health education, physical fitness etc. They followed up

with us year by year with surveys as well, with the final survey our

senior year in High School. If they could do something that extensive

with school children, surely they could do something similar with a

large group of women. Of course school children are a captive

audience.

Imagine a study of women from the age of 20 to 35 where they monitor

hormone levels, body mass index, exercise level, diet, lifestyle and

would document gynecological events and problems. I was thinking that

this age window might help provide better information about causes

and predictors of a range of gynecologic issues including heavy

periods, no periods/anovuation, polycystic ovaries, endometriosis,

fibroids, cervical conditions, etc. Has anyone heard of any work

studying younger women before the development of gynecologic disease

and disorder?

-Ann