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Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts

COVID-19 vaccination protects against the potentially serious consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but some people have been hesitant to receive the vaccine because of reports that it could affect menstrual bleeding. To determine whether this occurs we prospectively recruited a cohort of 79 individ...

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Autores principales: Alvergne, Alexandra, Woon, Ee Von, Male, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9580734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frph.2022.952976
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description COVID-19 vaccination protects against the potentially serious consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but some people have been hesitant to receive the vaccine because of reports that it could affect menstrual bleeding. To determine whether this occurs we prospectively recruited a cohort of 79 individuals, each of whom recorded details of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles, during which time they each received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. In spontaneously cycling participants, COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a delay to the next period, but this change reversed in subsequent unvaccinated cycles. No delay was detected in those taking hormonal contraception. To explore hypotheses about the mechanism by which these menstrual changes occur, we retrospectively recruited a larger cohort, of 1,273 people who had kept a record of their menstrual cycle and vaccination dates. In this cohort, we found a trend toward use of combined hormonal contraception being protective against reporting a delayed period, suggesting that menstrual changes following vaccination may be mediated by perturbations to ovarian hormones. However, we were unable to detect a clear association between the timing of vaccination within the menstrual cycle and reports of menstrual changes. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 vaccination can lengthen the menstrual cycle and that this effect may be mediated by ovarian hormones. Importantly, we find that the menstrual cycle returns to its pre-vaccination length in unvaccinated cycles.
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spelling pubmed-95807342022-10-26 Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts Alvergne, Alexandra Woon, Ee Von Male, Victoria Front Reprod Health Reproductive Health COVID-19 vaccination protects against the potentially serious consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but some people have been hesitant to receive the vaccine because of reports that it could affect menstrual bleeding. To determine whether this occurs we prospectively recruited a cohort of 79 individuals, each of whom recorded details of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles, during which time they each received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. In spontaneously cycling participants, COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a delay to the next period, but this change reversed in subsequent unvaccinated cycles. No delay was detected in those taking hormonal contraception. To explore hypotheses about the mechanism by which these menstrual changes occur, we retrospectively recruited a larger cohort, of 1,273 people who had kept a record of their menstrual cycle and vaccination dates. In this cohort, we found a trend toward use of combined hormonal contraception being protective against reporting a delayed period, suggesting that menstrual changes following vaccination may be mediated by perturbations to ovarian hormones. However, we were unable to detect a clear association between the timing of vaccination within the menstrual cycle and reports of menstrual changes. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 vaccination can lengthen the menstrual cycle and that this effect may be mediated by ovarian hormones. Importantly, we find that the menstrual cycle returns to its pre-vaccination length in unvaccinated cycles. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9580734/ /pubmed/36303656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frph.2022.952976 Text en Copyright © 2022 Alvergne, Woon and Male. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
title Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
title_full Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
title_fullStr Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
title_full_unstemmed Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
title_short Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
title_sort effect of covid-19 vaccination on the timing and flow of menstrual periods in two cohorts
topic Reproductive Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9580734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frph.2022.952976
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