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. 2022 Jun 13;51(3):691-700.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyab239.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the menstrual cycle: research gaps and opportunities

Gemma C Sharp  1   2 , Abigail Fraser  1   2   3 , Gemma Sawyer  1 , Gabriella Kountourides  4 , Kayleigh E Easey  1   2 , Gemma Ford  5 , Zuzanna Olszewska  4 , Laura D Howe  1   2 , Deborah A Lawlor  1   2   3 , Alexandra Alvergne  4   6 , Jacqueline A Maybin  7
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the menstrual cycle: research gaps and opportunities

Gemma C Sharp et al. Int J Epidemiol. .
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A flowchart of articles identified and filtered through our systematic review protocol
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How the pandemic mitigation/control factors and COVID-19 illness, treatment and vaccines may impact on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian-endometrial axis to alter menstrual frequency, duration, regularity and/or volume
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