Time is of the essence: personalized prediction of reproductive time span to optimize life goals.
Regina is a 38-year-old woman who has been trying to conceive for about a year. She married late in life and started trying to conceive shortly thereafter. She is in good health, with no medical problems, and has had fairly regular menstrual cycles; however, she notes that the length of her cycle has gotten shorter over the past 2 to 3 months and is now occurring every 25 days. She has used an over-the-counter "fertility" test that assesses ovarian reserve by urinary follicle-stimulating hormone levels, which indicated that she has low fertility. She decided to seek medical help.
From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D054304:Anti-Mullerian Hormone / Q000097:blood; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000502:physiology*; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000502:physiology*; D008597:Menstrual Cycle / Q000502:physiology*; D006080:Ovarian Follicle / Q000502:physiology; D010053:Ovary / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors
D004958:Estradiol; D054304:Anti-Mullerian Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone