Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 5 , Pages 1425-1431 , May 2006

Past oral contraceptive use and angiographic coronary artery disease in postmenopausal women: data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation

  • C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., F.A.C.C.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., c/o WISE Coordinating Center, University of Pittsburgh, 127 Parran Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261 (FAX: 310-423-9681)
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  • B. Delia Johnson, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  • Sarah Berga, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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  • Glenn Braunstein, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
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  • Steven E. Reis, M.D., F.A.C.C.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  • Vera Bittner, M.D., F.A.C.C.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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  • WISE Study Group

Received 29 September 2005 ,Revised 19 September 2006 ,Accepted 19 September 2006.

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 Supported by contracts from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, nos. N01-HV-68161, N01-HV-68162, N01-HV-68163, and N01-HV-68164; a General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) grant MO1-RR00425 from the National Center for Research Resources; and grants from the Gustavus and Louis Pfeiffer Research Foundation, Denville, New Jersey, The Women’s Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, and The Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 The WISE Study Group: T. Keta Hodgson, R.N., Carl Pepine, M.D., M.A.C.C., Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Sunil Mankad, M.D., F.A.C.C., Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Barry L. Sharaf, M.D., F.A.C.C., Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island; George Sopko, M.D., Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Sheryl F. Kelsey, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

PII: S0015-0282(06)00214-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.01.009

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 5 , Pages 1425-1431 , May 2006

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