The observation that subjects with specific phenotypic traits are prone to the development of particular organic or psychiatric disorders is an old medical tenet. Nowadays, these relationships tend to be explained based on genotype-phenotype associations, which have been suggested for over one hundred disorders, including diabetes, obesity, Crohn's disease, and hypertension (1, 2). Along this line, some recent advances in endometriosis research fit this view, as multiple studies have contributed to the definition of a general phenotype associated with the disease (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). Intriguingly, such an emerging phenotype appears to be indirectly linked with attractiveness, because several of the physical characteristics studied, including body size, body mass index (BMI), and pigmentary traits (4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13), have an impact on perception of beauty (14, 15). A biological gradient between the degree of expression of these traits and the degree of severity of endometriosis has also emerged. As an example, with regard to body size and figure, an inverse relationship has been observed between BMI and severity of the disease in general (8), and in particular in patients with deep endometriosis (12). Despite this growing body of evidence, studies formally investigating attractiveness in women with endo-metriosis are lacking.
So when they say attractiveness, they mean BMI, size of breasts, and pigmentary traits?
This was in 2012. Have they done a similar study on the hotness of men with prostatitis, I wonder?