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Relationship between premenstrual symptoms and dysmenorrhea in Japanese high school students

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To determine the relationship between premenstrual symptoms and dysmenorrhea among Japanese adolescent girls, a total of 1,431 high school students were assessed. Of them, 11.3% were classified with “moderate to severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS)” and 3.2% with “premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).” Eighty-five percent of the girls had dysmenorrhea. The rates of prevalence of PMDD and moderate to severe PMS were increased according to the severity of dysmenorrhea (rs = 0.479), showing a correlation between the severity of PMS/PMDD and dysmenorrhea in adolescents.

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This work was supported, in part, by a grant from the Institute for Food and Health Science, Yazuya Co., Ltd.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba, Sendai, Japan

    Mari Kitamura, Takashi Takeda, Shoko Koga, Satoru Nagase & Nobuo Yaegashi

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Kitamura, M., Takeda, T., Koga, S. et al. Relationship between premenstrual symptoms and dysmenorrhea in Japanese high school students. Arch Womens Ment Health 15, 131–133 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-012-0266-2

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