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☆Clinical trials number: NCT01170390.
☆☆Authors Disclosures: Dr. Edelman: consultant for Gynuity Health Projects, Genzyme and Agile Therapeutics; Nexplanon trainer for Merck; and author for UptoDate (Royalties received). She receives research funding from the National Institute of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These potential conflicts of interest have been reviewed and managed by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Dr. Jensen has received payments for consulting from Bayer Healthcare, Merck, Agile Therapeutics, HRA Pharma and the Population Council and for giving talks for Bayer and Merck. He has also received research funding from Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Bayer, the Population Council, the National Institute of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These companies and organizations may have a commercial or financial interest in the results of this research and technology. These potential conflicts of interest have been reviewed and managed by OHSU. Dr. Stanczyk is presently on the advisory board for Merck & Co., Inc. and Agile Therapeutics. Also, in the last few years, he has consulted for Shionogi Inc. and Bayer Healthcare. Ms. McInnis and Drs. Munar and Cherala have no disclosures.
★Financial Support: The authors acknowledge the grant support from the National Institutes of Health (R01 HD061582-01 NICHD; 2K12HD043488 NICHD), the OHSU Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute (NIH NCRR 1 UL1 RR024120) and the Bioanalytical Shared Resource/Pharmacokinetics Core at OHSU.
