Review Article
The Formidable yet Unresolved Interplay between Endometriosis and Obesity
Table 1
Comparison between two meta-analyses examining the correlation between endometriosis and BMI.
| | Authors | Liu and Zhang [18] | Jenabi et al. [19] |
| | Year of publication | 2017 | 2019 | | Included studies | 11 | 9 | | Cohort (%) | 2 (18.2) | 3 (33.3) | | Case-control (%) | 9 (81.8) | 4 (44.4) | | Cross-sectional (%) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (22.2) | | Common studies | 3 | | Histologic diagnosis of endometriosis (%) | 10 (90.9) | 6 (66.7) | | Heterogeneity-I2 (p) | 86.9% (<0.001) | 4.5% (0.40) | | Correlation of endometriosis with | | Underweight | N/A | OR 1.41, 95% CI 1.16–1.66 | | Overweight | RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.91–1.05 | OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.72–1.18 | | Obesity | RR 0.87, 95% CI 0.83–0.96 | OR 0.88, 95% CI 0.54–1.21 |
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