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Should access to fertility-related services be conditional on body mass index?Anjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School, L4000 Women s Hospital, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5276, USA
Hum Reprod 24:1532-7. 2009..Ongoing monitoring of trends in service utilization in light of the obesity epidemic and delayed childbearing will provide further insight into this clinical health policy issue...- Prevalence of overweight and obesity among women of childbearing age: results from the 2002 National Survey of Family GrowthAnjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0276, USA
Matern Child Health J 13:268-73. 2009..To estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among U.S. women of childbearing age... - Utilization of fertility-related services in the United StatesAnjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0276, USA
Fertil Steril 90:1317-9. 2008..Nearly half of the study population reported receiving drugs to improve ovulation... - College students' perceptions of emergency contraception provisionAnjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0276, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:103-11. 2008..The authors examined college students' perceptions regarding emergency contraception (EC) provision in light of the then pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision about the over-the-counter (OTC) status of EC... - Family-planning practices among women with diabetes and overweight and obese women in the 2002 National Survey For Family GrowthAnjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Anjel Vahratian
Diabetes Care 32:1026-31. 2009..To examine contraceptive practices among diabetic women and obese women... 
Methodological challenges in studying labour progression in contemporary practiceAnjel Vahratian
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:72-8. 2006..Moreover, such detailed information could have important clinical implications towards reducing the rate of primary caesarean delivery in the United States...- State-specific trends in preterm delivery: are rates really declining among non-Hispanic African Americans across the United States?Anjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Matern Child Health J 10:27-32. 2006..This study sought to examine state-specific trends in preterm delivery rates among non-Hispanic African Americans and to assess whether these rates are influenced by misclassification of gestational age... - Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity and the risk of cesarean delivery in nulliparous womenAnjel Vahratian
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ann Epidemiol 15:467-74. 2005..To examine the effect of maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity on the risk of term cesarean delivery in nulliparous women... 
Longitudinal depressive symptoms and state anxiety among women using assisted reproductive technologyAnjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 5276, USA
Fertil Steril 95:1192-4. 2011..Women who underwent FSH-IUI or IVF had higher levels of depressive symptoms and state anxiety at baseline compared with those who attempted conception naturally, and this difference persisted over time...- Prepregnancy body mass index and gestational age-dependent changes in lipid levels during pregnancyAnjel Vahratian
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Obstet Gynecol 116:107-13. 2010..To examine the effect of maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity on gestational age-dependent variation in lipid levels during pregnancy... - Multivitamin use and the risk of preterm birthAnjel Vahratian
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:886-92. 2004..These results suggest that, compared with nonusers, women who take multivitamin supplements prior to conception may have a reduced risk of preterm birth, but further studies are needed with a larger sample of preconceptional users... - Maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity and the pattern of labor progression in term nulliparous womenAnjel Vahratian
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Obstet Gynecol 104:943-51. 2004..To examine the effect of maternal overweight and obesity on labor progression... - Emergency contraception provision: a survey of Michigan physicians from five medical specialtiesXiao Xu
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:489-98. 2007..This study examined the attitudes and practices regarding advance provision and OTC status of ECP among physicians in five medical specialties likely to encounter patients in need of ECP... - The impact of parity on course of labor in a contemporary populationAnjel Vahratian
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Birth 33:12-7. 2006..The difference in duration of the active phase between nulliparas and multiparas is substantially smaller in a contemporary population... - Comparison of labor progression between induced and noninduced multiparous womenMatthew K Hoffman
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware 19718, USA
Obstet Gynecol 107:1029-34. 2006..We sought to determine how labor progression of multiparous women who presented in spontaneous labor differed from those who were electively induced with and from those induced without preinduction cervical ripening... - Labor progression and risk of cesarean delivery in electively induced nulliparasAnjel Vahratian
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:698-704. 2005..Furthermore, elective induction in nulliparous women with an unfavorable cervix has a high rate of labor arrest and a substantially increased risk of cesarean delivery. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II-2... - Insurance coverage and health care use among near-elderly womenXiao Xu
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, L4000 Women s Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0276, USA
Womens Health Issues 16:139-48. 2006..In this study, we sought to examine the status of near-elderly women's health insurance coverage in the United States and how it may influence their use of health care services... - Birthweight differences among infants of North African immigrants and Belgians in BelgiumAnjel Vahratian
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Eur J Public Health 14:381-3. 2004..Infants of North African immigrants are reported to have higher birthweights than their Belgian counterparts. It is unclear what mechanism contributes to this difference... - Public perceptions of endometriosis: perspectives from both gendersDivya K Shah
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 89:646-50. 2010..There is a paucity of data, however, surrounding perceptions of endometriosis in the general population. This study aims to assess knowledge of endometriosis among individuals of both genders... - Preterm delivery rates in North Carolina: are they really declining among non-Hispanic African Americans?Anjel Vahratian
Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:59-63. 2004..Such misclassification was more frequent in 1989 than in 1999, inflating 1989 preterm delivery rates... - The effect of early epidural versus early intravenous analgesia use on labor progression: a natural experimentAnjel Vahratian
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:259-65. 2004..CONCLUSION: Our data support recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines that the restraining use of epidural analgesia at <4 cm of cervical dilation is unnecessary... - The mothers, Omega-3 and mental health studyEllen Mozurkewich
University of Michigan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11:46. 2011.... - Abdominal surgical incisions and perioperative morbidity among morbidly obese women undergoing cesarean deliveryJason Bell
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 154:16-9. 2011.... - Self-rated health and health care use among women with histories of gestational diabetes mellitusCatherine Kim
Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Diabetes Care 33:41-2. 2010..To examine self-rated health and health care utilization among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (hGDM)... - Thiazolidinediones decrease vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production by human luteinized granulosa cells in vitroDivya K Shah
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Fertil Steril 93:2042-7. 2010..To determine the effect of thiazolidenedione derivatives (TZDs) on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production by human luteinized granulosa cells and the morphologic development of murine embryos... - Secondhand tobacco smoke exposure is associated with increased risk of failed implantation and reduced IVF successMerle D Benedict
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Hum Reprod 26:2525-31. 2011..IVF allows for the collection of follicular fluid (FF), the fluid surrounding the pre-ovulatory oocyte, which may be a more biologically relevant sample media than urine or serum in studies of early reproduction... - The effects of a single cervical inoculation of Chlamydia trachomatis on the female reproductive tract of the baboon (Papio anubis)Jason D Bell
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Infect Dis 204:1305-12. 2011..We sought to determine if the baboon could become infected with a single cervical inoculation of Chlamydia trachomatis... - Comparison of gestational age classifications: date of last menstrual period vs. clinical estimateMartha S Wingate
University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294 0022, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:425-30. 2007..We contrasted these measures by race/ethnicity... - Monozygotic twinning associated with day 5 embryo transfer in pregnancies conceived after IVFVictoria Wright
Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Hum Reprod 19:1831-6. 2004..This study examines the association between day of embryo transfer and monozygotic (MZ) twinning...