Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 2060-2067, December 2008

Bone mineral density in adolescent females using injectable or oral contraceptives: a 24-month prospective study

  • Barbara A. Cromer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Barbara A. Cromer, M.D., Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44109 (FAX: 216-778-4223).
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  • Andrea E. Bonny, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Margaret Stager, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Rina Lazebnik, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Ellen Rome, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Julie Ziegler, M.A.

      Affiliations

    • MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Kelly Camlin-Shingler, L.I.S.W.

      Affiliations

    • MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Michelle Secic, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Secic Statistical Consulting, Inc., Chardon, Ohio

Received 4 August 2006; received in revised form 30 October 2007; accepted 30 October 2007. published online 28 January 2008.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01HD 39009 (Washington, D.C.) and by General Clinical Research Center grant M1RR008012 (National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C.).

 Presented in part at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 4, 2004.

 E.R. served on the speaker's bureau for Merck (Whitehouse Station, N.J.). All other authors have nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(07)03956-8

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.070

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 2060-2067, December 2008

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