Background
Materials and methods
Results
Variable | Statistic/Response
a
| All sites (n = 124) |
---|---|---|
Age (years) | Mean (SD) | 42.4 (4.4) |
Median | 43 | |
Range | 31 – 52 | |
Race | White or Caucasian | 58 (46.8%) |
Black or African American | 41 (33.1%) | |
Asian | 2 (1.6%) | |
Other b
| 23 (18.5%) | |
Ethnicity | Hispanic or Latino | 56 (45.2%) |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 68 (54.8%) | |
Smoking History | Current | 25 (20.2%) |
Past | 21 (16.9%) | |
Never | 78 (62.9%) | |
Height (cm) | Mean (SD) | 162.5 (8.1) |
Median | 162.6 | |
Range | 137.2 – 180.3 | |
Weight (kg) | Mean (SD) | 80.9 (19.4) |
Median | 79.2 | |
Range | 49.0 – 147.4 | |
BMI | Mean (SD) | 30.5 (6.2) |
Median | 29.2 | |
Range | 19.8 – 47.3 |
Subscale | Baseline | 24 months | Change in score | 95% confidence interval |
---|---|---|---|---|
Concern | 24.7 ± 20.7 | 70.8 ± 28.6 | 45.6 | 39.9, 51.3 |
Activities | 37.1 ± 24.1 | 81.1 ± 24.2 | 41.9 | 37.5, 48.2 |
Energy/Mood | 38.1 ± 21.8 | 79.3 ± 22.9 | 39.6 | 34.6, 44.6 |
Control | 45.5 ± 24.9 | 85.8 ± 22.1 | 39.1 | 33.4, 44.9 |
Self-consciousness | 38.2 ± 28.3 | 82.1 ± 21.1 | 42.0 | 36.3, 47.7 |
Sexual function | 45.5 ± 29.8 | 74.1 ± 29.1 | 29.2 | 22.7, 35.8 |
Pt | Treated fibroids
a
| Symp severity
b
| HRQL
c
| Reintervention | Pathology | ||
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Baseline | 12 mo | Baseline | 12 mo | ||||
1
| 6 Subserosals 5.6; 4.4; 1.5; 3.6; 1.9; 3.0 | 53.1 | 28.1 | 46.6 | 89.7 | Hysterectomy at 16.5 months | Multiple myomas ranging from 0.4 to 4.7 cm; focally irregular endo-myometrial junction |
2 Intramurals 4.8: 4.7 | |||||||
1 Subserosal/Intramural 2.7 | |||||||
2
| 4 Intramurals 5.2; 1.8; 1.1; 1.8 | 68.8 | 28.1 | 10.3 | 82.8 | Hysteroscopic myomectomy by resection at 15 months | No pathology |
3
| 3 Subserosals 5.0; 1.3; 1.9 | 78.1 | 43.8 | 20.7 | 51.7 | Hysterectomy at 14 months | Multiple myomas ranging from 0.6 to 3.4 cm; focal adenomyosis |
1 Intramural 1.8 | |||||||
4
| 1 Intramural 2.0 | 62.5 | 28.1 | 10.3 | 60.3 | Supracervical hysterectomy at 23 months | Only morcellated tissue available. Findings: adenomyosis, leiomyomata, proliferative endometrium |
1 Submucosal 2.0 1 | |||||||
Undefined 1.9 | |||||||
5
| 5 Intramurals 2.7; 2.7; 2.6; 8.5; 6.7 | 75.0 | 56.3 | 17.2 | 28.4 | Hysteroscopic myomectomy by resection at 16 months | Focal degenerative changes and features suggestive of polyp |
1 Undefined 3.2 | |||||||
6
| 1 Intramural 2.0 | 53.1 | 62.5 | 37.1 | 43.1 | Hysterectomy at 23.5 months | Adenomyosis; multiple myomas ranging in size from 0.4 cm to 1.2 cm |
1 Subserosal 2.0 |