Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 35-40, January 2010

Oral contraceptive use and bone density in adolescent and young adult women☆

  • Delia Scholes

      Affiliations

    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 206 287 2888; fax: +1 206 287 2871.
    • ,
  • Laura Ichikawa

      Affiliations

    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    • ,
  • Andrea Z. LaCroix

      Affiliations

    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    • Women's Health Initiative, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    • ,
  • Leslie Spangler

      Affiliations

    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    • ,
  • Jeannette M. Beasley

      Affiliations

    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    • Women's Health Initiative, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    • ,
  • Susan Reed

      Affiliations

    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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  • Susan M. Ott

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Received 23 May 2009; received in revised form 4 July 2009; accepted 7 July 2009. published online 25 August 2009.

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☆ This study was funded by grant 1R01-HD31165-11 (Scholes) from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Beasley is a postdoctoral fellow supported by T-32 AG027677 from the National Institute on Aging.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00346-1

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2009.07.001

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 35-40, January 2010

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