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Abstract
In order to evaluate the rates of menstrual dysfunction in female elite athletes of team games, 66 Turkish athletes of indoor sports (volleyball, basketball, and handball) and 30 volleyball players from Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and Sweden were given a questionnaire on menstrual and practice history. The overall rate of menstrual irregularity (amenorrhea plus oligomenorrhea) was found to be 30%, with the visitor athletes having a rate of 43%. The athletes who were menstruating irregularly were found to train more than their counterparts during light training and the competition season. The menstrual dysfunction group consisted of younger athletes (p ≤ 0.05). The age of onset of training was also lower (11.67 ± 2.27) in the irregular group (p ≤ 0.05). Of the athletes with irregularity, 80% had started training premenarchally. No differences were found between the body mass index and the age of thelarche and pubarche of the regularly and irregularly menstruating groups.