Professor of reproductive health at University College London, John Guillebaud, told Quartz that patients have described the cramping pain as "almost as bad as having a heart attack." While this, erm, "discovery" is vindicating for many of us, it does beg a couple of questions.

伦敦大学学院的生殖健康教授约翰·吉尔伯对《石英》杂志说道，病人将痛经描述成"不亚于一次心脏病。"虽然这一"发现"对于我们很多人来说是一种证明，但也的确回避了一些问题。

Why has it taken so long?

为什么到现在才给出证实？

And why is it a largely ignored issue? Research indicates a worrying discrepancy between how seriously women's pain is taken generally by doctors compared to men's.

为什么这是一个在很大程度上被忽略的问题？研究表明了医生和男性对女性承受的痛经程度认知存在令人担忧的差异。

Men wait an average of 49 minutes before being treated for abdominal pain. For women, the wait is 65 minutes for the same symptoms. It's also a function which is still handled with secrecy among women themselves, and which has "imbalanced" connotations - the word "hysteria" originates from the Greek word for uterus .

男性腹痛的时候，平均等待49分钟能接受治疗。而对于女性而言，同样的症状却得等待65分钟。这也是女性自身秘密处理的一个功能，有着"不平衡的"内涵--"歇斯底里"一词源于希腊词汇子宫。

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