Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 957-964 , October 2008

An examination of the association of abuse (physical, sexual, or emotional) and female sexual dysfunction: results from the Boston Area Community Health Survey

Received 22 May 2007 ,Revised 20 July 2007 ,Accepted 23 July 2007.

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 This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant no. DK56842.

 Raymond C. Rosen, Ph.D., is a consultant for Boehringer Ingelheim and Johnson & Johnson.

PII: S0015-0282(07)03005-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1352

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