The Women's Health Study: From Adolescence to Adulthood (WHS:A2A)

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Infertility; Dysmenorrhea; Pelvic Pain; Endometriosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01738204

IRB-P00004267

Details and patient eligibility

About

In order to learn more about women's health issues that occur over the lifespan, the Women's Health Study: from Adolescence to Adulthood is building a biorepository and database. The biorepository collects, processes and stores samples (such as urine, saliva, blood, cells, tissue and peritoneal fluid) until they are needed for research. The database contains de-identified information about our study participants. The biorepository and database are being created to serve as a resource for researchers from Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and outside institutions.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 7 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female
• at least 7 years old
• not experiencing natural menopause

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

2,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Females with endometriosis

Description:

Females with a surgical diagnosis of endometriosis or who undergoing surgery for suspected endometriosis. At this time, we are only recruiting patients of Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital for this group.

Females without surgical diagnosis of endometriosis

Description:

Females do not need to be patients of Boston Children's Hospital or Brigham and Women's Hospital.