To the question, which is the cause of the development of endometriosis, scientists still can not give a definite answer. However, progress in the diagnosis is obvious, and modern medicine has denominations of both the risk factors for the development of this disease and the factors that reduce this risk.
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Endometriosis — Benignural growth of fabric, such a mucous membrane of the uterus body (endometrial), outside of its usual location. This is a disease today — one of the leading female genital diseases.
According to the head of the department of operational gynecology, the Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, about 15% of the women of reproductive age suffer from this ailment.
The name of the disease occurred from the word «Endometrium». We already know that this is the inner sheath of the uterus. It wipes the uterus and turns out every month during blood menstruation, if the egg fertilization has not happened. In case of endometriosis, the foci of the uterine endometrial can be located in various organs of the female organism.
The location is distinguished by genital (94-96% of cases) and extragnenital endometriosis. Genital divide on the inner and outdoor.
- Endometriosis of the muscle body of the uterus — adenomyosis, to the outer — Endometriosis of the cervix, vagina, crotch, uterine pipes, ovaries, peritonean.
- The extragenital (located outside the genital organs) includes endometriosis of navel, postoperative scars, intestines, bladder, lungs and other organs.
Factors affecting the emergence and subsequent development of endometriosis are divided into two large groups — raising and reduced disease.
Factors increasing the risk of endometriosis:
- hereditary predisposition;
- excess level of estrogen;
- age older than 35 years;
- reduction of the duration of the menstrual cycle;
- an increase in the volume of menstrual blood loss;
- Alcohol and caffeine abuse;
- disorder of metabolism, in particular, obesity;
- Influence of chemicals.
In addition, recently there are assumptions that contamination by dioxins affects the increase in the incidence of endometriosis. It is known that women living in developed countries of the world are well known to this submission. Very high dioxin concentrations were found in breast milk in women in Belgium, where, according to statistics, endometriosis occupies one of the first places in the world of prevalence.
Factors that reduce the risk of endometriosis
To factors that reduce the risk of endometriosis include:
• reception of hormonal contraceptives;
• the use of intrauterine helix;
• Smoking (however, it is not necessary to take this information literally: Indeed, according to foreign statistics, the number of non-smokers with endometriosis is greater than the number of smokers; but it does not follow from this that in order to avoid the disease, it is necessary to start smoking immediately or continue — with greater intensity).
