Doctors don’t know how uterine fibroids develop, but they have found that some certain women are more likely to show signs and symptoms of fibroids. Here are just a few of the factors that may make a patient more likely to experience symptoms of fibroid cysts. Obesity. Women who are obese have a higher risk of developing fibroids. Very obese women, in fact, are two or three times more likely to get fibroids, in fact. This risk is further increased if the women eats a lot of red meat. Ethnicity. Unfortunately, studies have shown that African-American are far more likely …