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01-04-2010 | Meeting abstract
Increased attention for negative life events is associated with an elevated risk for premenstrual symptoms
Authors:
Xenia Gonda, Konstantinos Fountoulakis, Gabor Csukly, Tamas Telek, Dorottya Pap, Zoltan Rihmer, Gyorgy Bagdy
Published in:
Annals of General Psychiatry
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Special Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
The majority of healthy women experience some degree of fluctuation of mood and physical phenomena parallelling their reproductive cycle. While in most women this doesnt significantly interfers with everyday functioning in a smaller portion of women it causes distress severe enough to seek medical help. Earlier it has been found that premenstrual syndromes show an association with perceived stress. However, we hypothesise that even in healthy women, the experience of more severe symptoms in the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle is related to the perception of life events. The aim of our study was to investigate the association between severity of late luteal phase symptoms and perception of positive and negative life events in a sample of healthy women. …
