Fertility and Sterility
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 982-988 , April 2004

The concerns during assisted reproductive technologies (CART) scale and pregnancy outcomes

  • Hillary Klonoff-Cohen, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Hillary Klonoff-Cohen, Ph.D., Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0607, La Jolla, California 92093-0607, USA (FAX: 858-822-4192).
    • ,
  • Loki Natarajan, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

Received 22 August 2002 ,Revised 22 August 2003 ,Accepted 22 August 2003.

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☆ Supported by grant no. 4RT0032 from the University of California, Office of the President, Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, Oakland, California.

PII: S0015-0282(03)03095-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.08.050

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 982-988 , April 2004

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