Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 1 , Pages 129-140 , January 2008

The ReSTAGE Collaboration: defining optimal bleeding criteria for onset of early menopausal transition

  • Siobán D. Harlow, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Siobán D. Harlow, Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 611 Church St., Rm 350, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 (FAX: 734-998-6837).
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  • Ellen S. Mitchell, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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  • Sybil Crawford, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Masschusetts
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  • Bin Nan, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Roderick Little, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • John Taffe, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Developmental Psychiatry, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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  • ReSTAGE Collaboration

Received 1 May 2006 ,Revised 8 February 2007 ,Accepted 8 February 2007.

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 ReSTAGE has grant support from the National Institute of Aging (Grant AG 021543, Siobán Harlow, PI). The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) has grant support from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, through the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health (Grants NR004061, AG012505, AG012535, AG012531, AG012539, AG012546, AG012553, AG012554, and AG012495). The Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study has grant support from the National Institute of Nursing Research (Grants NR004141 and NR04001, Ellen Mitchell, PI). Data collection for the Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project was supported by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Lorraine Dennerstein, PI).

 The ReSTAGE Collaboration: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Siobán D. Harlow (Principal Investigator), Roderick Little, Bin Nan, John Randolph, MaryFran Sowers, Matheos Yosef; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington: Ellen S. Mitchell, Nancy Fugate Woods, Kevin Cain; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts: Sybil Crawford; University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia: Lorraine Dennerstein; Monash University, Melbourne Australia: John Taffe, Henry Burger.

PII: S0015-0282(07)00404-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.02.015

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 1 , Pages 129-140 , January 2008

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