Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 2 , Pages 438-445 , August 2007

Gestational hypertension in pregnancies supported by infertility treatments: role of infertility, treatments, and multiple gestations

  • Sonia Hernández-Díaz, M.D., Dr.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Martha M. Werler, Sc.D.

      Affiliations

    • Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Allen A. Mitchell, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Allen A. Mitchell, M.D., Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (FAX: 617-738-5119).

Received 2 June 2006 ,Revised 27 November 2006 ,Accepted 27 November 2006.

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 Supported in part by the National Center for Birth Defects and Prevention, Atlanta, GA and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA.

PII: S0015-0282(06)04667-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.131

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 2 , Pages 438-445 , August 2007

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