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title: What risk factors are associated with asthma worsening before the period?
description: Women with premenstrual asthma tend to be older, have more severe asthma, higher body weight, longer asthma duration, and are more prone to aspirin-triggered
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/risk-factors-for-premenstrual-asthma-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-2017/
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Systematic review, 2017

# What risk factors are associated with asthma worsening before the period?

Women with premenstrual asthma tend to be older, have more severe asthma, higher body weight, longer asthma duration, and are more prone to aspirin-triggered asthma. They also more often have painful periods, PMS, shorter menstrual cycles, and longer bleeding.

 Strong study design

Women with asthma, specifically those with and without premenstrual worsening

## What they did

They searched 7 electronic databases for articles on risk factors for premenstrual asthma and selected 20 articles for systematic review and meta-analysis.

## What they found

Women with premenstrual asthma are older, have more severe asthma, higher body-mass index, longer asthma duration, and greater likelihood of aspirin sensitivity. They more often have dysmenorrhea, premenstrual syndrome, shorter menstrual cycles, and longer menstrual bleeding.

## What it means for you

If you have asthma and notice it worsens before your period, you may have other menstrual symptoms too. Doctors may need to manage both. We still don't fully understand why hormone levels and inflammation affect asthma timing.

20

articles included in the systematic review

7

electronic databases searched

2017

publication year of the review

## About the study

Original title Risk factors for premenstrual asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis Authors Sánchez-Ramos JL, Pereira-Vega AR, Alvarado-Gómez F et al. Journal Expert review of respiratory medicine Year 2017 Study design Systematic review What was tested N/A - observational review of risk factors Read the paper [doi.org/10.1080/17476348.2017.1270762](https://doi.org/10.1080/17476348.2017.1270762)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Dysmenorrhea and period pain](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-dysmenorrhea/)

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