Women with endometriosis have higher comorbidities: Analysis of domestic data in Taiwan

AbstractEndometriosis, defined by the presence of viable extrauterine endometrial glands and stroma, can grow or bleed cyclically, and possesses characteristics including a destructive, invasive, and metastatic nature. Since endometriosis may result in pelvic inflammation, adhesion, chronic pain, and infertility, and can progress to biologically malignant tumors, it is a long-term major health issue in women of reproductive age. In this review, we analyze the Taiwan domestic research addressing associations between endometriosis and other diseases. Concerning malignant tumors, we identified four studies on the links between endometriosis and ovarian cancer, one on breast cancer, two on endometrial cancer, one on colorectal cancer, and one on other malignancies, as well as one on associations between endometriosis and irritable bowel syndrome, one on links with migraine headache, three on links with pelvic inflammatory diseases, four on links with infertility, four on links with obesity, four on links with chronic liver disease, four on links with rheumatoid arthritis, four on links with chronic renal disease, five on links with diabetes mellitus, and five on links with cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc.). The data available to date support that women with endometriosis might be at risk of some chronic illnesses and certain malignancies, although we consider the evidence for some comorbidities to be of low quality, for example, the association between colon cancer and adenomyosis/endometriosis. We still believe that the risk of comorbidity might be higher in women with endometriosis than that we supposed before. More research is needed to determine whether women with endometriosis are really at risk of these comorbidities

Property (H) in lebesgue-bochner function spaces

We prove that if a Banach space X has the property (HR) and if l1, is notisomorphic to a subspace of X, then every point on the unit sphere of X is a denting point of the closed unit ball. We also prove that if X has the above property, then Lp(µ, X), 1 \u3c p \u3c ∞, has the property (H). © 1985 American Mathematical Society

Denting points in bochner L\u3csup\u3ep\u3c/sup\u3e-spaces

A characterization of denting points in the unit balls of Lp(μ, X), 1 \u3c p \u3c ∞, is given. This characterization is compared to similar known results concerning strongly extreme points and extreme points. © 1986 American Mathematical Society

Some Structures Related to Metric Projections in Orlicz Spaces

We discuss k-rotundity, weak k-rotundity, C-k-rotundity, weak C-k-rotundity, k-nearly uniform convexity, k-β property, C-I property, C-II property, C-III property and nearly uniform convexity both pointwise and global in Orlicz function spaces equipped with Luxemburg norm. Applications to continuity for the metric projection at a given point are given in Orlicz function spaces with Luxemburg norm

Dual action of asymptotically isometric copies of lp(1≤p<∞)l_p (1\leq p < \infty) and c0c_0

P.N. Dowling and C.J. Lennard proved that if a Banach space contains an asymptotically isometric copy of $l_1$, then it fails the fixed point property. In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for a Banach space to contain an asymptotically isometric copy of l_p(1\leq p <\infty) or $c_0$ are given by the dual action. In particular, it is shown that a Banach space contains an asymptotically isometric copy of $l_1$ if its dual space contains an isometric copy of $l_\infty$, and if a Banach space contains an asymptotically isometric copy of $c_0$, then its dual space contains an asymptotically isometric copy of $l_1$