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On the frequency of intercourse around ovulation: evidence for biological influencesA J Wilcox
National Institute of Environment Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA
Hum Reprod 19:1539-43. 2004..Such coordination has not been established in humans. We explored this possibility by examining patterns of sexual intercourse in relation to ovulation...
Short-term change in growth of uterine leiomyoma: tumor growth spurtsDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, Laboratory of Women s Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Fertil Steril 95:242-6. 2011..To describe the short-term changes in growth of uterine leiomyomas (fibroids)...- Vitamin d and the risk of uterine fibroidsDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 24:447-53. 2013..No previous study has examined whether vitamin D is related to fibroid status in women... 
Anti-Müllerian hormone: a potential new tool in epidemiologic studies of female fecundabilityDonna D Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Am J Epidemiol 175:245-9. 2012..In addition, this hormone should be investigated as an independent measure of fecundability in studies that focus on exposures hypothesized to target the ovary...- Prenatal diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure is associated with uterine leiomyoma developmentDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, A3 05, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, P O Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Reprod Toxicol 20:81-4. 2005..1-5.4). Exposed women tended to have larger tumors. Results were robust to sensitivity analyses. Findings support experimental animal data and indicate a role for prenatal estrogen exposure in the etiology of human uterine leiomyoma... - Invited commentary: uterine leiomyomata-we know so little but could learn so muchDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:124-6. 2004 - Luteinizing hormone in premenopausal women may stimulate uterine leiomyomata developmentDonna D Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Soc Gynecol Investig 13:130-5. 2006..We hypothesized that luteinizing hormone (LH) would have the same effect by activating the LH/hCG receptor, and it would follow that premenopausal women with higher basal LH levels would be more likely to have leiomyomata... - Association of physical activity with development of uterine leiomyomaDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:157-63. 2007..The authors concluded that regular exercise might help women prevent fibroids... - Uterine leiomyomata in relation to insulin-like growth factor-I, insulin, and diabetesDonna D Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 20:604-10. 2009..We hypothesized that circulating levels of these proteins would be associated with increased prevalence and size of uterine fibroids... - Rescue of the corpus luteum in human pregnancyDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Biol Reprod 68:448-56. 2003..Delineating the functional importance of an abrupt progesterone rise at the time of implantation may provide new strategies for promoting successful implantation in assisted reproduction... - The gestational timing of pregnancy loss: adaptive strategy?Donna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research, Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Am J Hum Biol 21:725-7. 2009..Specific questions within the broad framework of this hypothesis can be addressed with research in comparative physiology and endocrinology... - Within-person variability in urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations: measurements from specimens after long-term frozen storageDonna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 20:169-75. 2010..These findings support the use of stored urine specimens collected during the relevant stage of human pregnancy to investigate the influence of phthalate exposures on later outcomes... - Why is parity protective for uterine fibroids?Donna Day Baird
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 14:247-50. 2003..If the hypothesis is supported by more direct evidence, it may have broader implications, supporting the idea that tissue remodeling may be a general mechanism for limiting tumor development... - Perfluorinated compounds in relation to birth weight in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort StudyKristina W Whitworth
National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Am J Epidemiol 175:1209-16. 2012..Whether some of the associations suggested by these findings may be due to a noncausal pharmacokinetic mechanism remains unclear... - Patterns and predictors of vaginal bleeding in the first trimester of pregnancyReem Hasan
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Ann Epidemiol 20:524-31. 2010..This study characterizes first trimester bleeding, setting aside bleeding that occurs at time of miscarriage... - Early-life exposures and early-onset uterine leiomyomata in black women in the Sister StudyAimee A D'Aloisio
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:406-12. 2012..An earlier analysis of non-Hispanic white women who participated in the Sister Study found associations between several early-life factors and early-onset fibroids... - Pregnancy-related fibroid reductionShannon K Laughlin
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Fertil Steril 94:2421-3. 2010..Of 171 women with one initial fibroid, 36% had no identifiable fibroid at the time of postpartum ultrasound, and 79% of the remaining fibroids decreased in size... - Pesticide exposure and self-reported gestational diabetes mellitus in the Agricultural Health StudyTina M Saldana
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P O Box 12233, MD A3 05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Diabetes Care 30:529-34. 2007..To examine the association between pesticide use during pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among wives of licensed pesticide applicators... - Perfluorinated compounds and subfecundity in pregnant womenKristina W Whitworth
Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Durham, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 23:257-63. 2012..We examined subfecundity in relation to 2 perfluorinated compounds-perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)... - Accuracy of reporting bleeding during pregnancyReem Hasan
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 24:31-4. 2010..Overall, the presence of vaginal bleeding, a common and potentially alarming symptom of early pregnancy, may be assessed by interview later in pregnancy with reasonable accuracy... - Bayesian modeling of incidence and progression of disease from cross-sectional dataB Dunson
Biostatistics Branch, MD A3 03, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P O Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Biometrics 58:813-22. 2002..A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is described for posterior computation, and the methods are applied to data from a study of uterine leiomyoma... - Association of intrauterine and early-life exposures with diagnosis of uterine leiomyomata by 35 years of age in the Sister StudyAimee A D'Aloisio
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:375-81. 2010..Early-life exposures to hormonally active compounds and other factors may affect later response to estrogen or progesterone and hence may influence development of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids)... - Effects of early pregnancy loss on hormone levels in the subsequent menstrual cycleAnne Marie Z Jukic
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Gynecol Endocrinol 26:897-901. 2010..Very early pregnancy losses do not appear to influence subsequent menstrual cycles to the same degree as spontaneous miscarriages... - Association between first-trimester vaginal bleeding and miscarriageReem Hasan
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Obstet Gynecol 114:860-7. 2009..To estimate the strength of association between first-trimester bleeding and miscarriage, setting aside bleeding at time of loss... - Prevalence of uterine leiomyomas in the first trimester of pregnancy: an ultrasound-screening studyShannon K Laughlin
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Obstet Gynecol 113:630-5. 2009.... - In utero exposure to tobacco smoke and subsequent reduced fertility in femalesXibiao Ye
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIEHS, National Institutes of Health NIH, Department of Human and Health Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Hum Reprod 25:2901-6. 2010..Animal studies have shown that in utero exposure to chemicals in tobacco smoke reduces female fertility, but epidemiological findings have been inconsistent... - A proportional hazards model for incidence and induced remission of diseaseDavid B Dunson
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Biometrics 58:71-8. 2002..Inference uses Bayesian methods via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Theoretical properties are derived, and the approach is illustrated through analysis of the effects of childbirth on uterine leiomyoma (fibroids)... - Lifestyle and reproductive factors associated with follicular phase lengthAnne Marie Zaura Jukic
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:1340-7. 2007..We sought to identify characteristics associated with follicular phase length... - IGF-I and IGFBP-3 polymorphisms in relation to circulating levels among African American and Caucasian womenAimee A D'Aloisio
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P O Box 12233, Mail Drop A3 05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:954-66. 2009..Our study supports that common IGFBP-3 SNPs, especially rs2854746, influence plasma IGFBP-3 levels among African Americans and Caucasians but provides less evidence that IGF-I SNPs affect plasma IGF-I levels... - Accuracy of reporting of menstrual cycle lengthAnne Marie Zaura Jukic
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:25-33. 2008..Studies that rely on self-reported cycle length could be prone to artifactual findings because of systematic covariate effects on reporting... - Men's body mass index and infertilityRuby H N Nguyen
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIEHS, National Institutes of Health NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Hum Reprod 22:2488-93. 2007..We investigated whether higher BMI among men is associated with infertility and if so, to what extent that effect might be mediated by altered sexual function... - Prenatal and infant exposures and age at menarcheAimee A D'Aloisio
From the aEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC and bBiostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
Epidemiology 24:277-84. 2013..The number of established factors that contribute to early menarche is limited. We studied prenatal and infant exposures in relation to age at menarche in a nationwide cohort of women who have a family history of breast cancer... - Consumer product exposures associated with urinary phthalate levels in pregnant womenJessie P Buckley
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 22:468-75. 2012..Although personal care product use may be an important predictor of urinary phthalate levels, most of the variability in phthalate exposure was not captured by our relatively comprehensive set of questionnaire items... - Increased infertility with age in men and womenDavid B Dunson
Biostatistics Branch and Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Obstet Gynecol 103:51-6. 2004..To estimate the effects of aging on the percentage of outwardly healthy couples who are sterile (completely unable to conceive without assisted reproduction) or infertile (unable to conceive within a year of unprotected intercourse)... - Measuring menstrual discomfort: a comparison of interview and diary dataAnne Marie Zaura Jukic
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Epidemiology 19:846-50. 2008..Menstrual discomfort is common among women of reproductive age and can be debilitating. The accuracy of self-report of menstrual discomfort is unknown... - Pesticide exposure and hypertensive disorders during pregnancyTina M Saldana
Social and Scientific Systems, Inc, 1009 Slater Road, Durham, NC 27703, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1393-6. 2009..Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and preeclampsia (PE), complicate 2-8% of pregnancies. Few studies have examined environmental risk factors in relation to these conditions... - Self-reported heavy bleeding associated with uterine leiomyomataGanesa Wegienka
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Obstet Gynecol 101:431-7. 2003..To characterize the relationship between self-reported bleeding symptoms and uterine leiomyoma size and location... - Growth of uterine leiomyomata among premenopausal black and white womenShyamal D Peddada
Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:19887-92. 2008.... - Changes with age in the level and duration of fertility in the menstrual cycleDavid B Dunson
Biostatistics Branch, MD A3 03, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, P O Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Hum Reprod 17:1399-403. 2002.... - Uterine leiomyomata associated with self-reported stress urinary incontinenceAnca D Dragomir
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 19:245-50. 2010..To investigate the association between the presence and characteristics of uterine leiomyomata (UL) and self-reported stress urinary incontinence (SUI)... - A prospective study of the onset of symptoms of pregnancyAmy E Sayle
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 55:676-80. 2002..The earliest symptoms do not begin until after key stages of embryogenesis, reinforcing the need for women to initiate sound health behaviors before pregnancy is apparent. Published by Elsevier Science Inc... - Can men provide accurate confounder data about their partners for Time-to-Pregnancy studies?Ruby H N Nguyen
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27703, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:186-90. 2007..In many occupation-based TTP studies, all information is collected through the male partner. There are no data on the validity of the man's report of his partner's fertility-related behavior... - Genome-wide analysis of loss of heterozygosity and copy number amplification in uterine leiomyomas using the 100K single nucleotide polymorphism arrayKellen L Meadows
Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Exp Mol Pathol 91:434-9. 2011..Despite the importance of this tumor in women's health, relatively little is known about the molecular etiology... - Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane and polychlorinated biphenyls: intraindividual changes, correlations, and predictors in healthy women from the southeastern United StatesThao T Vo
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2729-36. 2008.... - Neurobehavioral performance and work experience in Florida farmworkersFreya Kamel
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1765-72. 2003..We conclude that long-term experience of farm work is associated with measurable deficits in cognitive and psychomotor function... - Reproducibility of urinary phthalate metabolites in first morning urine samplesJane A Hoppin
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 2233, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:515-8. 2002..5 for mBzP. These results suggest that even with the short half-lives of phthalates, women's patterns of exposure may be sufficiently stable to assign an exposure level based on a single first morning void urine measurement... - The fibroid growth study: determinants of therapeutic interventionBarbara J Davis
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:725-32. 2009.... - Invited commentary: Natural versus unnatural sex ratios--a quandary of modern timesAllen J Wilcox
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC 27709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 174:1332-4; discussion 1335. 2011..The possible role of sex selection in the Cuban context is discussed... - Reduced fertility among overweight and obese menMarkku Sallmen
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Epidemiology 17:520-3. 2006..Overweight and obese men have been reported to have lower sperm counts and hormonal changes, but data are lacking regarding effects on couple fertility... - Within-person variability in urinary bisphenol A concentrations: measurements from specimens after long-term frozen storagePablo A Nepomnaschy
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Environ Res 109:734-7. 2009..Our aims were to evaluate the stability of BPA in specimens after 22-24 years of storage and to measure within-person temporal variability in urinary BPA... - Influence of medical conditions and lifestyle factors on the menstrual cycleAndrew S Rowland
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USA
Epidemiology 13:668-74. 2002..Few studies have described medical and lifestyle factors associated with various menstrual cycle characteristics... - Associations of abdominal fat with perceived racism and passive emotional responses to racism in African American womenAnissa I Vines
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Am J Public Health 97:526-30. 2007..Passive emotional responses to perceived racism, hypothesized to have particularly adverse effects, were also examined... - Potential bias due to excluding oral contraceptive users when estimating menstrual cycle characteristicsGanesa Wegienka
Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:947-50. 2003..However, our data indicate that, with only a few additional questions, information on usual menstrual cycle characteristics can be collected and used to evaluate bias in any given study... - Obesity and insulin-like growth factor-I in African Americans and WhitesDonna Day Baird
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1526; author reply 1526. 2007 - A comparison of recalled date of last menstrual period with prospectively recorded datesGanesa Wegienka
Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:248-52. 2005..Women are often asked to recall the first day of their last menstrual period (LMP date) in a clinic setting (i.e., pregnancy dating, x-rays). There are no data supporting the validity of these reports... - Uterine leiomyomata (fibroids): are bleeding symptoms more likely to be reported after diagnosis?Ganesa Wegienka
J Clin Epidemiol 57:318-20. 2004