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Public education is needed for Jamaican women with postmenopausal bleeding.
2003 MAY 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Public education is needed for Jamaican women with postmenopausal bleeding to evaluate for malignancies.
According to a study from Jamaica, "We investigated the histopathological findings in women presenting with postmenopausal bleeding in a population predominantly of African descent by conducting a 6-year retrospective study of 716 gynecological surgical specimens from 629 women accessed in the Department of Pathology, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
"Histopathological diagnoses were correlated with patient age, specimen volume, duration of bleeding and length of postmenopausal interval at presentation using t-tests and linear regression models," wrote C.T. Escoffery and colleagues, University of the West Indies, Department of Pathology.
The mean (SD) age was 63.6 (9.3) years. The frequency of the main causes of postmenopausal bleeding was: endometrial hyperplasia (22.3%); endometrial atrophy (21.3%); nondiagnostic (19.0%); endometrial carcinoma (9.5%); cervical carcinoma (6.8%); cervical polyps (4.5%); endometrial sarcoma (3.5%); proliferative endometrium (3.2%)," the researchers wrote.
"Mean (SD) duration of bleeding was 6.9 ...
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