Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 2 , Pages 451-454 , February 2006

A model for predicting age at menopause in white women

  • Lukas A. Hefler, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprints requests: Lukas Hefler, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria (FAX: 43-1-40400-2911).
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  • Christoph Grimm, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Eva-Katrin Bentz, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Alexander Reinthaller, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Georg Heinze, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Clemens B. Tempfer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Received 9 April 2005 ,Revised 19 July 2005 ,Accepted 19 July 2005.

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 Supported in part by the Ludwig Boltzmann Foundation, Institute for Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Vienna, Austria.

PII: S0015-0282(05)03680-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.07.1300

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 2 , Pages 451-454 , February 2006

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