Stress May Raise Women's Bacterial Vaginosis Risk

...stress seem to increase a woman's odd of having, or developing, a vaginal infection termed bacterial vaginosis (BV)...

...3614 women, between the ages of 15 to 44, who were not pregnant or on long-term antibiotic therapy and had a normal immune system...

...stress was linked to BV, with each 1-point increase on the Perceived Stress Scale (range 1.00 to 5.00) associated with a 1.15-fold greater risk of being positive for BV...

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