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Endometriosis and Social Class: An Asian Experience
Author(s) -
Arumugam Kulenthran,
Welluppilai Sivanesh
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1993.tb00378.x
Subject(s) - endometriosis , social class , class (philosophy) , population , disease , medicine , demography , psychology , sociology , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , law
The social class distribution in 147 patients confirmed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy was done to see if the disease was associated with affluence. Two hundred and eighty‐one patients confirmed not to have endometriosis was used as controls. The patients were derived from a background population for which the social class characteristics was known. Endometriosis was significantly (p<0.001) associated with social class 1 and 2. However there was no association between social class distribution and the severity of the disease developed.