Sarah R. Hoffman — Endo Lab

2024

Combined oral contraceptive utilization and uterine fibroid incidence: A prospective study in a cohort of African-American women.

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0303823

Published associations between combined oral contraceptive use and uterine fibroid development have lacked prospective imaging with ultrasound to distinguish between incident and prevalent fibroids. The Study of Environment, Lifestyle, and …

2020

Reasons for hormonal contraceptive use in a cohort of African-American women living in the Detroit area.

Contraception ·doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2020.07.093

ObjectivesTo characterize reasons for hormonal contraceptive (HC) use in 1,455 African-American women, aged 23-35 years.Study designThe community-based cohort members were recruited from the Detroit, Michigan area in 2010-2012. HC history w…

article 2020

The epidemiology of gynaecologic health: contemporary opportunities and challenges

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ·doi:10.1136/jech-2019-213149

The field of reproductive epidemiology has primarily focused on reproductive outcomes and gynaecologic cancers. The study of non-cancerous, gynaecologic conditions (eg, uterine fibroids, endometriosis) has not received serious treatment in …