Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 542-548 , February 2009

Low serum osteoprotegerin levels in premenopausal infertile women with low bone density: an association of relevance?

  • John M. Norian, MD.

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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  • Goli Adel, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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  • Ruth G. Freeman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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  • Nanette F. Santoro, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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  • Lubna Pal, M.B.B.S., MRCOG, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lubna Pal, M.B.B.S., MRCOG, M.S., Department Of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208063, New Haven, CT 06520 (FAX: 203-785-7134).

Received 4 September 2007 ,Revised 28 November 2007 ,Accepted 28 November 2007.

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 Funding provided by U.S. National Institutes of Health 5K12 RR17672 (to LP).

 Presented in part at the 28th annual meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 15–19, 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04154-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.089

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 542-548 , February 2009

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