Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 3 , Pages 584-590 , March 2007

Functional well-being is positively correlated with spiritual well-being in women who have spontaneous premature ovarian failure

  • June L. Ventura, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Section on Women’s Health Research, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • O. Ray Fitzgerald, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Deloris E. Koziol, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Sharon N. Covington, M.S.W.

      Affiliations

    • Section on Women’s Health Research, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Vien H. Vanderhoof, C.R.N.P.

      Affiliations

    • Section on Women’s Health Research, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Vien H. Vanderhoof and Lawrence M. Nelson are Commissioned Officers in the United States Public Health Service.
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  • Karim A. Calis, Pharm.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Section on Women’s Health Research, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Lawrence M. Nelson, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Section on Women’s Health Research, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Vien H. Vanderhoof and Lawrence M. Nelson are Commissioned Officers in the United States Public Health Service.
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lawrence M. Nelson, M.D., National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institutes of Health, CRC 1-3330, 10 Center Drive, MSC-1103, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1103 (FAX: 301-402-0574).

Received 22 February 2006 ,Revised 12 July 2006 ,Accepted 12 July 2006.

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 Supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), and by a grant (J.L.V.) from the International Premature Ovarian Failure Association (Alexandria, VA).

PII: S0015-0282(06)04021-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.07.1523

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 3 , Pages 584-590 , March 2007

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