5Who Can Get It?
The first and most obvious answer to this are women. When digging deeper, age and ethnicity also can play a role per Symcat research tools. Girls aged 14 years old and younger, only those who have had their first menstrual cycle, are two times more likely to have ovulation pain. It increases with girls and women, ages ranging from 15 years old to 29 years old, to 2.7 times more likely to have pain with ovulation. It then drops down to 1.4 times more likely or as described by Symcat, “an average chance” for women ages of 30 to 44 to have painful ovulation. Risk with regard to ethnicity has African American women at the forefront with 1.4 times more likely to have it. Hispanic women follow with 1.2 times more likely and Caucasian women as well as all other ethnicities having 0.9 times likely to have pain with ovulation.
