Word: erdelyi
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Gynecologic Disorders. Some doctors still fear that women who participate in competitive sports suffer bad effects, including masculinization and menstrual disorders. But Illinois' Dr. Gyula J. Erdelyi insists that most of these fears are groundless. Reporting last week on a study of 729 Hungarian women athletes, Dr. Erdelyi called masculinization claims highly exaggerated," said that unfavorable changes in the menstrual cycle occur no more frequently among sportswomen (about 10%) than among nonathletic females. He also studied 172 pregnant women athletes, found complications of pregnancy less frequent than among nonathletes. Labor time was generally shorter, and the frequency of Caesarean...
...Erdelyi noted that competitors in certain sports-swimming, diving, skiing, ice skating-are more susceptible than other female athletes to gynecologic disorders such as dysmenorrhea (painful, difficult menstruation) and inflammation of the internal sex organs. Menstruation, he found, often impairs ability: "I found extremely poor performance in tennis and rowing during the menstrual period." Since female athletes exhibit top skill, strength and muscle tone just after menstruation, many deliberately provoke the onset of menstruation with hormone injections before sports contests...