title: [Preliminary study of the hormonal effect on various parameters of the pelvic floor in genitally active women without hormone therapy and in menopausal women].
abstract: This study proves the benefit of estrogens on the laxity, tonicity and contractility of the pelvic floor, as measured with a tonimetric instrument. The statistical hypothesis, that these three parameters are improved in genitally active women during estrogenic phase as compared to the progestative phase, as well as in menopausal women under substitutive treatment as compared to the menopausal women without hormonal treatment, is confirmed with a high degree of significance.
authors.affiliation: Brussels Menopause Center.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bacho
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Winandy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004967:Estrogens / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects*; D009129:Muscle Tonus / Q000187:drug effects; D010388:Pelvis / Q000502:physiology*; D011372:Progestins / Q000494:pharmacology; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D004967:Estrogens; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones; D011372:Progestins
vernacular_title: Etude préliminaire de l'influence hormonale sur les différents paramètres du plancher pelvien chez la femme en activité génitale sans hormonothérapie et chez la femme ménopausée.