TY - JOUR T1 - Sport, exercise and the menstrual cycle: where is the research? JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 487 LP - 488 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096279 VL - 51 IS - 6 AU - G Bruinvels AU - R J Burden AU - A J McGregor AU - K E Ackerman AU - M Dooley AU - T Richards AU - C Pedlar Y1 - 2017/03/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/6/487.abstract N2 - Despite a decreasing gender gap in exercise participation, there still remains a significant under-representation of women included in sport and exercise medicine research studies.1 A review of 1382 sport and exercise research studies involving over 6 million participants, from 2011 to 2013, found the representation of women to be 39%.1 The complexities of the menstrual cycle are considered major barriers to the inclusion of women in clinical trials.Historically, partially due to concerns of potentially damaging unborn fetuses, medical trials—including drug trials—were conducted solely in men. Further, women were perceived … ER -