title: Endometriosis and social class: an Asian experience.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arumugam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Welluppilai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001208:Asia / Q000453:epidemiology; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015995:Prevalence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors