The human individual responds as an entire organism to the effect of endurance training. Exercise physiologists have long documented cardiovascular, musculo-skeletal and metabolic effects of condition...
Concentrations of beta-endorphin were measured in the venous effluent of the hypothalamus (hypophyseal portal blood) at various phases of the menstrual cycle and after ovariectomy in rhesus and pigtai...
Prior JC et al., 1982Canadian journal of applied sport sciences. Journal canadien des sciences appliquees au sport
Fourteen normal women (self-selected from 180 women enrolled) in a marathon training clinic kept basal body temperature (BBT), mileage, and weight records for 48 cycles before the marathon. Entry crit...
22 physician-providers who serve natural family planning (NFP) programs, mostly in the private sector, gathered to formulate a standard terminology for the field. The Billings and sympto-thermal metho...
Pip: The concept of utilizing changes in cervical secretion offers a potentially simple method of natural family planning. A detailed international trial has been conducted to test the effectiveness o...
A preliminary study of 'screened' women with two consecutive miscarriages revealed an incidence of abortion in 47.4% in a subsequent pregnancy whilst hCG therapy in a similar group of women where bioc...
Olive DL et al., 1982The Journal of Reproductive Medicine
Two hundred sixty-three patients with a diagnosis of endometriosis or adenomyosis were studied in a retrospective fashion. The association between endometriosis resulted in a spontaneous abortion rate...
A group of 17 patients with suspected luteal phase deficiency was treated with tamoxifen. Tamoxifen therapy was found to lengthen the luteal phase in all patients and resulted in pregnancy in 6 of 17 ...
Lenton EA et al., 1982Journal of Reproduction and Fertility
Hormonal profiles were obtained throughout 26 conception cycles and 27 non-conception control cycles. The pregnancies followed treatment (clomiphene or bromocriptine) in 12 women but were spontaneous ...
Billings JJ, 1982American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Wade et al.'s report, entitled "A randomized prospective study of the use-effectiveness of 2 methods of natural family planning," contains items worthy of emphasis. These includes the following: 1) le...
Cates W Jr, 1982American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Thomas W. Hilgers, M.D., testifying to the Australian Royal Commission on Human Relationships in 1975, alleged that liberal abortions laws in the U.S. caused more deaths among women of childbearing ag...
Bagdade JD et al., 1982Arteriosclerosis (Dallas, Tex.)
Pooled serum from women taking a combined estrogen-progestin oral contraceptive preparation caused significantly greater cell proliferation and incorporation of 3H-thymidine into DNA in both human art...
Sixty-nine infertile women with a midluteal serum progesterone level of 4 to 14 ng/ml were treated with a graduated dosage schedule of clomiphene citrate until the progesterone level on day 21 was gre...
Many studies have been published on luteal phase deficiency, and the emphasis in most of them is on progesterone deficiency. In this study 144 patients (455 cycles) with infertility were studied. The ...
The importance of predicting human ovulation for either optimizing or avoiding conception has been considered from an endocrine, morphological and clinical view point. Of the biochemical markers in pe...
A significant portion of human infertility is presumably due to defective ovulation, including patients who fail to conceive despite medical induction of ovulation, those who fail despite repeated tim...
Interview data from 3,214 married women having planned pregnancies and singleton deliveries who had no history of fertility treatment and who conceived more than two weeks after cessation of contracep...
Pregnant mice were treated with a single subcutaneous injection of either cyproterone acetate (CA) or medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA). In the first experiment the animals received 5-900 mg/kg of the...
This review of natural family planning (NFP) focuses on the following: components of the fertile phase; sympto-thermal methods; the history and methodology of NFP (calendar rhythm, basal body temperat...
Correy JF et al., 1982The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
The outcome of pregnancy was studied in all women conceiving after ovulation induction with clomiphene at the gynaecological endocrine clinics operating in 2 Tasmanian cities. In 156 pregnancies where...
Varma TR et al., 1982International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
This study evaluates the effect of treatment with Proluton-Depot (hydroxyprogesterone hexanoate) in early pregnancy, and the final outcome of pregnancy and fetal status. One hundred and fifty patients...
Messinis IE et al., 1982Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica
The effectiveness of tamoxifen and clomiphene in inducing ovulation was compared in 46 women with anovulatory infertility. All the women were given both the drugs in an alternate way. If one cycle was...
Meier-Vismara E et al., 1982Geburtshilfe Und Frauenheilkunde
During the last decade, the World Health Organization has paid increasing attention to some reliable methods of birth control based on periodic abstinence. There are 2 main methods of natural family p...
Nine patients on long-term hemodialysis with dialysis encephalopathy were studied, with sex matched control subjects for eight of the patients. Each patient with dialysis encephalopathy and control su...
Bone Health > Metabolic Bone Disease > Dialysis OsteomalaciaBone Health > Fractures > Hemodialysis PatientsResearch Methodology > Study Design > Case-Control Study
Garfield RE et al., 1982American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Rats which were subjected to ovariectomy on day 18 of pregnancy and were treated with 17 beta-estradiol underwent delivery prematurely at 0900 +/- 1.9 hours on the morning of day 18. All animals had i...
Heinonen PK et al., 1982Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica
A total of 182 women with uterine anomalies were observed over a period of 18 years. In all, 126 women had 265 pregnancies, fetal survival rate was 66%, perinatal mortality 8% and premature labors occ...
Surgery > Uterine Surgery > Metroplasty for Uterine AnomaliesGeneral OB/GYN > Uterine Anomalies > Reproductive OutcomesPregnancy > Complications > Uterine Malformations
Past practices of Natural Family Planning (NFP) have included such techniques as: 1) calendar rhythm in which a constant mathematical relationship was calculated between the day of ovulation and the b...
Dmowski WP et al., 1981American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Cell-mediated autoimmune responses were studied by means of in vivo and in vitro techniques in five rhesus monkeys with spontaneous endometriosis. The results were compared with similar data obtained ...
The estimated time of ovulation (ETO) was correlated with the day of defined postovulatory infertility in 66 hormonally normal menstrual cycles from 24 subjects for each of 15 different natural family...
Both the medical profession and the general public are becoming more and more aware of the need for adolescent contraception and the devastating consequences of the lack of such care. It is the respon...
Fertility following bilateral ovarian wedge resection (BOWR) was evaluated in a retrospective cohort study of 90 consecutive cases of the polycystic ovary syndrome. Post-BOWR follow-up was available f...
Sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) binding capacity was measured in 50 women with severe premenstrual syndrome and 50 age-matched controls. The binding capacity was significantly lower (P = 0.001) in...
Serra A, 1981Bulletin of the Natural Family Planning Council of Victoria
Genetic errors of many kinds are connected with the reproductive processes and are favored by a nunber of largely uncontrollable, endogenous, and/or exogenous factors. For a long time human beings hav...
Fertility Awareness > Safety > Genetic Risk AssessmentEthics/Philosophy > Reproductive Ethics > Natural Family Planning Moral DebateResearch Methodology > Literature Review > Fertility Regulation Safety
World Health Organization, 1981Fertility and sterility
The percentage of 869 women in five countries capable of being taught to recognize the periovulatory cervical mucus symptom of the fertile period was determined in a prospective multicentre trial of t...
Cowan LD et al., 1981American Journal of Epidemiology
In order to investigate the nature of the association of involuntarily delayed first birth and risk of breast cancer, 1083 white women who had been evaluated and treated for infertility from 1945-1965...
Reproductive Endocrinology > Progesterone > Cancer RiskInfertility > Hormonal Causes > Long-term Health OutcomesGeneral OB/GYN > Breast Health > Hormonal Risk Factors
Several periovulatory symptoms sometimes used in natural family planning are correlated with the estimated time of ovulation in 23 subjects and 64 hormonally normal menstrual cycles. The data suggest ...
Brockington IF et al., 1981Archives of General Psychiatry
Fifty-eight psychoses beginning within two weeks of childbirth are compared with 52 episodes of nonpuerperal psychotic illness occurring in young women. A clinical approach based on the use of multipl...
Fleischer AC et al., 1981Journal of Clinical Ultrasound : JCU
Serial sonographic examinations were performed on 15 volunteers five days during the expected midcycle. The 75 sonographic studies were evaluated in a nonbiased manner, and the following features were...
27 healthy young Italian women were studied to evaluate their ability to identify symptomatically the potentially fertile phase of the menstrual cycle by self observation of their cervical mucus patte...
Marked improvement in the severe hypertension (250/150 mmHg) and hirsutism of a patient suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome was quickly achieved by the use of spironolactone 200 mg per day. Subst...
Robbins J, 1981
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Thyroxine, the major secretory product of the thyroid gland, is metabolized in the peripheral tissues by phenolic conjugation, deamination, decarboxylation, and a cascade of monodeiodinations. This br...
A progesterone solution was administered by intravaginal instillation, intramuscular injection, and sublingually to estrogen-deficient women, with or without estradiol (E2) replacement, and serum prog...
Previously, we demonstrated that selective suppression of serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in monkeys treated with charcoal-extracted porcine follicular fluid (pFF) in the early follicular pha...
This study was intended to correlate different clinical and biologic parameters to better define luteal insufficiency (LI) and to contribute to a better understanding of its origin. Endometrial patter...