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Fertility and Sterility

Volume 84, Issue 2, August 2005, Pages 523-528
Fertility and Sterility

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Epidemiologic aspects of postpartum pituitary hypofunction (Sheehan’s syndrome)

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Two hundred seventy-nine (3.20%) of the 8,730 parous females aged 20–39 years and 124 (4.18%) of 2,970 parous females aged 40 years or older who were screened were suspected to have Sheehan’s syndrome; 115 and 55 of these females in the two age groups were fully evaluated, and 98 and 51 of them, respectively, were proven to have Sheehan’s syndrome. At these rates, the projected number of women with Sheehan’s syndrome among a total population of parous females aged ≥20 years (12,32,827, as per census data) would be 38,691 in the Kashmir valley of the Indian subcontinent.

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