VIDEO: Lack of endometriosis knowledge, awareness impacts diagnosis

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In terms of biases, so society really normalizes a woman's pain and there's stigma around menstrual issues. So, there's really a lack of knowledge and awareness of the disease process in general in terms of how patients suffer from it. We know based on the data that black women are about half as likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis when compared to white women. Also, when looking at the data, we know that Asian women are more likely to be diagnosed than white women, so there is even inequities in terms of diagnosing the actual condition depending on racial and ethnic makeups.