Metabolic implications of menopauseHanah N Polotsky
Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York 10065, USA
Semin Reprod Med 28:426-34. 2010
..This review focuses on metabolic changes associated with menopausal transition, specifically alterations in weight, waist circumference, body fat distribution, energy expenditure, and circulating biomarkers including adipokines...
Association of adolescent obesity and lifetime nulliparity--the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Alex J Polotsky
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Fertil Steril 93:2004-11. 2010
..To evaluate whether adolescent obesity is associated with difficulties in becoming pregnant later in life...
Serum progesterone on the day of human chorionic gonadotropin administration predicts clinical pregnancy of sibling frozen embryosAlex J Polotsky
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Fertil Steril 92:1880-5. 2009
..To evaluate patient characteristics and fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle parameters that influence success of sibling frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles...
Partial recovery of luteal function after bariatric surgery in obese womenDana Rochester
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Fertil Steril 92:1410-5. 2009
..To determine whether obesity-related reproductive endocrine abnormalities in ovulatory women are reversible with weight loss...
Association of ethnicity with involuntary childlessness and perceived reasons for infertility: baseline data from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Anatte Karmon
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Fertil Steril 96:1200-5.e1. 2011
..To evaluate whether ethnicity is associated with involuntary childlessness and perceived reasons for difficulties in becoming pregnant...
How many eggs are needed to produce an assisted reproductive technology baby: is more always better?Beth McAvey
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
Fertil Steril 96:332-5. 2011
..To evaluate the association between the number of mature (metaphase II [MII]) oocytes per assisted reproductive technology (ART) cycle and the likelihood of live birth...
Aromatase inhibition causes increased amplitude, but not frequency, of hypothalamic-pituitary output in normal womenAlexander Kucherov
Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Fertil Steril 95:2063-6. 2011
..To better understand the site and mode of action of aromatase inhibitors...
Overweight men: clinical pregnancy after ART is decreased in IVF but not in ICSI cyclesJulia Keltz
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
J Assist Reprod Genet 27:539-44. 2010
..To evaluate if elevated male body mass influences success after assisted reproductive technologies..
The nucleolar channel system reliably marks the midluteal endometrium regardless of fertility status: a fresh look at an old organelleEli A Rybak
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Fertil Steril 95:1385-9.e1. 2011
..To determine whether nucleolar channel systems (NCSs) in the midluteal endometrium are associated with overall fertility status and/or with unexplained infertility...
Explained compared with unexplained fever in postoperative myomectomy and hysterectomy patientsEli A Rybak
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Obstet Gynecol 111:1137-42. 2008
..To confirm that fever with localized findings is less prevalent among febrile postoperative myomectomy patients than it is among hysterectomy patients...
Cardiovascular risk factor variation within a Hispanic cohort: SWAN, the Study of Women's Health Across the NationCarol A Derby
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1165 Morris Park Avenue, Rousso 336, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Ethn Dis 20:396-402. 2010
..Our goal was to examine the association of cardiovascular risk factors with country of origin and acculturation in a cohort of middle-aged Hispanic women...
Predictors of chronic disease at midlife and beyond--the health risks of obesityEdward J Nejat
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Maturitas 65:106-11. 2010
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Nuclear pore complex proteins mark the implantation window in human endometriumElisa Guffanti
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
J Cell Sci 121:2037-45. 2008
..The immunodetection assay, combined with the hitherto underappreciated prevalence of NCSs, now enables simple screening and further molecular and functional dissection...
Pulsatile luteinizing hormone amplitude and progesterone metabolite excretion are reduced in obese womenAkas Jain
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:2468-73. 2007
..Female obesity is linked to abnormal menstrual cycles, infertility, reproductive wastage, and deficient LH, FSH, and progesterone secretion...
Lithium chloride treatment induces epithelial cell proliferation in xenografted human endometriumAlex J Polotsky
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Hum Reprod 24:1960-7. 2009
..We developed a functional model of xenografted human endometrium to test whether similar mechanisms are operative in the human by using Lithium chloride (LiCl), an inhibitor of GSK3beta...