{"id":4349,"date":"2023-08-15T19:15:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:36:19","slug":"delayed-period-after-covid-shot-its-the-same-with-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/15\/delayed-period-after-covid-shot-its-the-same-with-covid-19-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Period After COVID Shot? It&#8217;s the Same With COVID-19 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/obgyn\/generalobgyn\/105877?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2023-08-15&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_081523&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">MedPageToday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having COVID-19 was linked to a slight, temporary change in menstrual cycle length similar to changes seen after COVID-19 vaccination, according to a study of self-reported data from a menstrual tracking app. People who experienced COVID-19 had a 1.45-day adjusted increase in cycle length during COVID-19 infection compared with the three cycles before infection (95% CI 0.86-2.04), while those who were vaccinated against COVID-19 had a 1.14-day adjusted increase in cycle length after being vaccinated compared to previous cycles (95% CI 0.60-1.69). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although both those changes were more than the 0.68-day decrease in cycle length seen in the control group of people who were neither vaccinated nor reported to have COVID-19, the vaccinated and infected groups did not differ significantly from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for both groups, the cycle changes disappeared by the next cycle, reported Alexandra Alvergne, PhD, of the Institute for Evolutionary Sciences at Montpellier University in France, and co-authors published in\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/greenjournal\/fulltext\/9900\/associations_among_menstrual_cycle_length,.856.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology<\/a><\/em> &#8220;The change in cycle length was minimal and limited to only the cycle of either illness or vaccination,&#8221; commented Pamela Berens, MD, an ob\/gyn at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, who was not involved in the study. &#8220;[This research] might provide some reassurance to patients who are concerned about the impact of COVID-19 or vaccination on their cycles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"fVo ry IclWHUXmW dcn HbZl  AZmcV\"><!-- fVo ry IclWHUXmW dcn HbZl  AZmcV --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Having COVID-19 was linked to a slight, temporary change in menstrual cycle length similar to changes seen after COVID-19 vaccination, according to a study of self-reported data from a menstrual tracking app. People who experienced COVID-19 had a 1.45-day adjusted increase in cycle length during COVID-19 infection compared with the three cycles before infection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}