What Are Fibroids?
4. Risk Factors
Some of the risk factors of fibroids are obesity and being in the reproductive years, as fibroid growth is dependent on estrogen and progesterone. Dietary choices also play a role as a diet that is high in vegetables and fruits may reduce the risk of developing fibroids.
Some say that having normal dietary levels of vitamin D can decrease the risk of fibroids. About 50% of uterine fibroids have a genetic abnormality. When a woman has fibroids, the risk of her daughter having fibroids is three times higher than usual. Women of African descent have 3 to 9 times higher risk of developing uterine fibroids compared to Caucasian women. Reed’s syndrome can cause uterine fibroids, cutaneous fibroids, and renal cell cancer. This is due to the gene mutation that produces an enzyme known as fumarate hydratase.
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