Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 71-76 , July 2008

Evidence of absence or absence of evidence? A reanalysis of the effects of low-dose aspirin in in vitro fertilization

Received 24 April 2007 ,Revised 4 June 2007 ,Accepted 4 June 2007.

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 Supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.

PII: S0015-0282(07)01258-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.033

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 71-76 , July 2008

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