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Around 70-80% of women will develop at least one fibroid by the time they’re 50.
Heavy periods are one of the leading causes of iron deficiency and anaemia.
Working out how much blood you’re losing and getting a sense of when it’s outside the normal range can be difficult. Recent research on the capacity of different period products could help.
Breaking the taboo: the fascinating history of menstrual products.
Around a quarter of women experience heavy periods. It probably seems normal to them, but it’s not something you just have to put up with.
Around a quarter of women have clinically heavy periods.
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GP and Lecturer at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
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Lecturer and GP, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL
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Senior lecturer in Women's Health, Queen Mary University of London
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DPhil in Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Ovarian Physiology, Lead for Ovarian Cryopreservation and Fertility Preservation Research, Lead of Rhino Fertility Project, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Consultant Gynaecologist, University of Liverpool
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Nutrition Epidemiology, Lund University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Family Medicine and Community Medicine, Lund University
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Centre for Reproductive Health Clinical Lecturer, University of Edinburgh