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SUBMITTER: Pollack AZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3836840 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pollack Anna Z AZ Louis Germaine M Buck GM Chen Zhen Z Peterson C Matthew CM Sundaram Rajeshwari R Croughan Mary S MS Sun Liping L Hediger Mary L ML Stanford Joseph B JB Varner Michael W MW Palmer Christopher D CD Steuerwald Amy J AJ Parsons Patrick J PJ
Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) 20130723
There has been limited study of trace elements and endometriosis. Using a matched cohort design, 473 women aged 18-44 years were recruited into an operative cohort, along with 131 similarly aged women recruited into a population cohort. Endometriosis was defined as surgically visualized disease in the operative cohort, and magnetic resonance imaging diagnosed disease in the population cohort. Twenty trace elements in urine and three in blood were quantified using inductively coupled plasma mass ...[more]