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Fibroids In African American Women, Why Do They Occur So Often? - Dr. McLucas (VIDEO)

By Dr. Bruce McLucas February 25, 2009 - 10:56am
 
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Dr. McLucas explains why fibroids are most common in African American women.

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Dr. McLucas:

Again, since we don’t know why people get fibroids period, we can’t say why one group would be more likely to get fibroids. However, we think there’s a tendency in black women to keloid, which is to have a scar tissue that would form, that would be a little bit more than in other races. That could cause growth of fibroids because fibroids are really a muscular sort of scar type of growth within the wall of the uterus. So that’s probably at least part of the puzzle.

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