Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages 51-55 , January 2009

A logistic model for the prediction of endometriosis

  • Barbara J. Stegmann, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Michele Jonsson Funk, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Center for Women's Health Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Ninet Sinaii, Ph.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Katherine E. Hartmann, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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  • James Segars, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Lynnette K. Nieman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Pamela Stratton, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Pamela Stratton, M.D., Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, CRC, Room 1-3140, MSC 1109, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-1109 (FAX: 301-480-6703).

Received 16 January 2007 ,Revised 14 November 2007 ,Accepted 14 November 2007.

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 Supported, in part, by the intramural research program of the Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, MD), by the NIH Clinical Center (Bethesda, MD), and by the NIH-sponsored Training in Epidemiology and Clinical Trials training grant (T32 HD40672) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

 Presented as a poster at the Society for Gynecologic Investigation Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 21–25, 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04103-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.038

Fertility and Sterility
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