Pharmacokinetics of progesterone a few other countries under the brand name Progestasert. It was marketed between 1976 and 2001. The IUD was never widely used due to a relatively high contraceptive failure rate of 2.9% and the requirement of annual replacement. It contained 38 mg progesterone and released 65 μg progesterone into the uterus per day (adding up to about 35 mg after one year). For comparison, a woman's body produces on average about 25 mg progesterone per day during the luteal phase. While effective as a form of contraception and for decreasing menstrual bleeding and discomfort, long-lived IUDs can fundamentally only deliver
Menstrual synchrony Israel. Twenty seven families, which had from two to seven sisters 13 years or older and collected data on menstrual cycle onsets over a three-month period. Using the methods of, they reported menstrual synchrony occurred for the first two months, but not for the third month for roommate sisters, close friend roommates, and for families as a whole. Strassmann investigated whether menstrual synchrony occurred in a natural fertility population of Dogon village women. Her study consisted of 122 Dogon women with an average lifetime fertility rate of 8.6 ± .3 live births per woman. Their median cycle length was 30