Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 2 , Pages 158-162 , August 2009

Age of sexual debut among US adolescents

  • Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 314 362 2152; fax: +1 314 362 4247.
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  • Melissa J. Krauss

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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  • Edward L. Spitznagel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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  • Mario Schootman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health Behavior Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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  • Kathleen K. Bucholz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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  • Jeffrey F. Peipert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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  • Vetta Sanders-Thompson

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
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  • Linda B. Cottler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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  • Laura Jean Bierut

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA

Received 12 December 2008 ,Revised 9 February 2009 ,Accepted 23 February 2009.

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☆ This publication was made possible by funding from the KL2 RR024994–ICTS Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program and Grant Number UL1 RR024992 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH. This publication was also supported in part by a Midcareer Investigator Award in Women's Health Research (K24 HD01298).

PII: S0010-7824(09)00051-1

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.02.014

Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 2 , Pages 158-162 , August 2009

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