Romero-Morales Carlos, de la Cueva-Reguera Mónica, Miñambres-Vallejo Beatriz, Ruiz-Ruiz Beatriz, Calvo-Lobo César, Casado-Hernández Israel, López-López Daniel, Abuín-Porras Vanesa
Faculty of Sport Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Villaviciosa de Odón, 28670 Madrid, Spain.
Facultad de Enfermería Fisioterapia y Podología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, |28040 Madrid Madrid, Spain.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2020 Mar 18;10(3):166. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10030166.
Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is one of the most common gynecological disorders in women of reproductive age that may affect quality of life. It is believed that the underlying cause of PD may be the excessive production of prostaglandins (PGs), however, between 20%-25% of women with PD did not respond to pharmacological treatments, showing that nociceptive mechanisms underlying PD are still not understood. The purpose of this study was to measure and compare, through the use of ultrasound imaging, the thickness at rest of the abdominal wall, as well as the interrecti distance (IRD), in women with and without PD.
A cross-sectional study has been performed using ultrasound imaging (USI) to measure the resting thickness of the external oblique (EO), internal oblique (IO), transversus abdominis (TrAb), rectus abdominis (RA), as well as the IRD in a sample of 39 women, 19 with PD and 20 without PD (median ± IR age: 20 ± 4 and 22.5 ± 7 years, respectively).
Findings of muscular thickness did not reveal statically significant differences ( < 0.05) in EO, IO, TrAb, RA, and the IRD between the PD group and control group.
These findings suggest that the thickness of the abdominal wall is not associated with PD.
原发性痛经（PD）是育龄女性中最常见的妇科疾病之一，可能会影响生活质量。据信，PD的潜在原因可能是前列腺素（PGs）分泌过多，然而，20%-25%的PD女性对药物治疗无反应，这表明PD的伤害感受机制仍未明确。本研究的目的是通过超声成像测量和比较有PD和无PD女性腹壁静息厚度以及腹直肌间距离（IRD）。
采用超声成像（USI）进行横断面研究，测量39名女性样本中外斜肌（EO）、内斜肌（IO）、腹横肌（TrAb）、腹直肌（RA）的静息厚度以及IRD，其中19名患有PD，20名无PD（年龄中位数±年龄范围：分别为20±4岁和22.5±7岁）。
肌肉厚度的测量结果显示，PD组和对照组在EO、IO、TrAb、RA以及IRD方面均未发现统计学上的显著差异（<0.05）。
这些发现表明腹壁厚度与PD无关。
