“When was your last period?”
For anyone who menstruates, this is a routine question during any visit to your doctor.
Health care providers generally ask this to determine whether their patient is concerned about a menstrual problem, or a possible pregnancy, or whether menopause is approaching or has occurred.
But rarely is the question discussed in the context of exploring menstrual experience as a “vital sign of health”...
Racism steals time from people’s lives – possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was linked to advanced aging[1], observed on a cellular level.
Black women who were more frequently exposed to racism showed stronger connections in brain networks involved with rumination and vigilance. We found...
“When was your last period?”
For anyone who menstruates, this is a routine question during any visit to your doctor.
Health care providers generally ask this to determine whether their patient is concerned about a menstrual problem, or a possible pregnancy, or whether menopause is approaching or has occurred.
But rarely is the question discussed in the context of exploring menstrual experience as a “vital sign of health”...