Chlamydia trachomatis infection, the most common reportable disease in the United States,
can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic …

The cause of preeclampsia remains elusive in spite of many attempts to understand its
biologic characteristics and to characterize its predictors. We suggest that there are distinct …

Ovarian cancer is a commonly fatal disease for which prevention strategies have been
limited, in part because of a lack of understanding of the underlying biology. This paper …

Background Endometriosis is a risk factor for epithelial ovarian cancer; however, whether
this risk extends to all invasive histological subtypes or borderline tumours is not clear. We …

OBJECTIVE: To examine dose–response relationships between the cumulative number of
months women lactated and postmenopausal risk factors for cardiovascular disease …

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and preeclampsia differ in their association with
maternal disease but share a similar placental pathology. Moreover, mothers who have had …

TERT-locus SNPs and leukocyte telomere measures are reportedly associated with risks of
multiple cancers. Using the Illumina custom genotyping array iCOGs, we analyzed∼ 480 …

Controversy surrounds the relations among infertility, fertility drug use, and the risk of
ovarian cancer. The authors pooled interview data on infertility and fertility drug use from …

Objective: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a common and morbid intraperitoneal
infection. Although most women with pelvic inflammatory disease are treated as outpatients …

Background: Lead exposure shares many risk factors with delinquent behavior, and bone
lead levels are related to self-reports of delinquent acts. No data exist as to whether lead …