Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 858-861 , March 2009

Weight change and ovarian steroid profiles in young women

  • Judith Flynn Chapman, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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  • Matthew H. McIntyre, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology and College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Matthew McIntyre, Ph.D., S.M., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, 309 Howard Phillips Hall, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, Florida, 32816.
    • ,
  • Susan F. Lipson, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Peter T. Ellison, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Received 15 November 2007 ,Revised 31 December 2007 ,Accepted 31 December 2007.

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 J.F.C. has nothing to disclose. M.H.M. has nothing to disclose. S.F.L. has nothing to disclose. P.T.E. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported by the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Association, the Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Women's Health Dissertation Awards, and an NSF Dissertation Improvement Award.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00008-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.081

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 858-861 , March 2009

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