Many women who have had hysterectomies have the perception that they gained weight after surgery that cannot be attributed to changes in diet or physical activity. The purpose of this analysis was to assess weight gain in premenopausal women in the first year after hysterectomy compared with a control group of women with intact uteri and ovaries.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Box 2949, Duke University Medical Center, 2424 Ervin Road, Suite 602, Durham, NC 27705, USA. patricia.moorman@duke.edu
