Heavy or healthy? Assessing menstrual bleeding and bleeding tendency in Dutch adolescents
Of adolescents, 20% have HMB. In adolescents aged 12 to 17 years, the self-BAT cutoff score ≥3 is too sensitive, identifying ∼50% at risk for a bleeding disorder and strengthening the need for reassessing the self-BAT cutoff score in menstruating adolescents.
Authors
- Judith A.F. Huirne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8248-2677)
- Anne de Vaan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6980-0477)
- Robert A. de Leeuw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9344-7754)
- Nicole B. Burger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6142-6684)
- Karin P. M. van Galen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3251-8595)
- Nehalennia van Hanegem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1394-0256)
- Habibe Özcan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4004-2761)
Institutions
- Utrecht University (NL)
- University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
- Published
- 2025-10-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpth.2025.103235
- Primary Topic
- Uterine Myomas and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00