Study, 1987
What groups of symptoms come together in severe PMS?
Women with severe PMS tend to have symptoms that form distinct patterns: two types of emotional and behavioral symptoms and two types of physical symptoms that go together.
What they did
Researchers studied women with severe premenstrual tension syndrome and analyzed their symptoms to find which ones clustered together.
What they found
The analysis showed two distinct clusters of emotional and behavioral symptoms and two distinct clusters of physical symptoms that tended to occur together.
What it means for you
Premenstrual symptoms follow recognizable patterns rather than appearing randomly. Identifying which pattern you experience might help with treatment. The main limits are that the sample size is not reported and there is no comparison group.
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emotional and behavioral symptom clusters
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physical symptom clusters
About the study
- Original title
- Premenstrual tension syndrome symptom clusters. Statistical evaluation of the subsyndromes
- Authors
- Siegel JP, Myers BJ, Dineen MK
- Journal
- The Journal of reproductive medicine
- Year
- 1987
- Study design
- Study
- Read the paper
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3612634/
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