Endocrine Abstracts

Summary: To establish the relations of women’s sexual function with social factors and use of hormonal contraception.Methods: There has been performed a pilot study. 20–43 years old participants with regular menstrual cycles (22–35 days) were randomly selected and have been interviewed. The test group consisted of 113 women who use any of hormonal contraception method. The control group consisted of 51 women not using hormonal contraceptio...

Numerous studies provided data on possible decline in human fertility over the last decades and geografic differences in it. So, recently research interest in these tendencies and possible factors affecting fertility is increased.Objective: In this study, we aimed to explore women’s fertility expressed as time to pregnancy (TTP) – the number of contraceptive-free cycles needed to conceive – in a large cohort of Lithuanian women and the eff...

The aim of the study was to explore the relation of female sexual function to the concentration of estradiol (E2), total testosterone (T), DHEA-S in the sample of Lithuanian women in postmenopause.Methods and participants: Two hundred and forty six postmenopausal women who fulfilled inclusion criteria were asked to fill in female sexual functioning index (FSFI) and socio-demographic questionnaire. A blood sample from all participants was taken...

In 2003–2004 year a study named The Reproductive Function of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Young Men, 18–25 year aged, was performed (QLK4-CT-1999-01422, NAS: QLK4-CT-2001-02911). Determination of semen quality, physical appearance and testicular size in relation to the level of reproductive hormones and environment, including life style factors was performed.The aim of our study was to recapture young men, who had participate in the study 7...