Stress-dependent menstrual disorders: The current state of the problem. A review

Changing the features of the menstrual cycle to certain limits up to a short anovulation can be considered as a normal and transient response to adverse living conditions, including stress factors. The line separating such a normal reaction from a disease is very fluid and can be crossed in the setting of a predisposition. Stressful exposures include objectively adverse and subjectively significant factors of different duration and intensity. The predisposition to menstrual irregularities can have genetic prerequisites and be triggered by epigenetic factors. This literature review provides up-to-date data on the issue of stress-dependent menstrual disorders. Due to the significant role of prolactin metabolism disorders in the etiology of such disorders, the prospects of using plant-origin dopaminomimetics, including in young patients, have been considered.