Stacey A Missmer
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· 301 papers in corpus
· active 2000-2026
Study types
- article 190
- other 46
- review 36
- preprint 9
- book-chapter 7
Condition tags
- endometriosis 283
- infertility 44
- chronic_pelvic_pain 42
- dysmenorrhea 17
- dyspareunia 13
- endometrioma 6
- adenomyosis 5
- interstitial_cystitis 4
- irritable_bowel_syndrome 4
- thoracic_endometriosis 1
Top journals
Frequent coauthors
- Missmer SA 183
- Krina T. Zondervan 82
- Allison F. Vitonis 65
- Kathryn L. Terry 62
- Christian M. Becker 50
- Holly R. Harris 45
- Andrew W. Horne 44
- Vitonis AF 43
- Grant W. Montgomery 42
- Leslie V. Farland 42
article
2010
BACKGROUND: An inverse association between adult body mass index (BMI) and risk of endometriosis has frequently been reported. However, the association between body size during childhood and early adulthood and endometriosis is not as well …
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2010
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a prevalent but enigmatic gynecologic disorder for which few modifiable risk factors have been identified. Fish oil consumption has been associated with symptom improvement in studies of women with primary dysme…
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2010
BACKGROUND: Phthalates are ubiquitous chemicals used in consumer products. Some phthalates are reproductive toxicants in experimental animals, but human data are limited. OBJECTIVE: We conducted a cross-sectional study of urinary phthalate …
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2010
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2010
Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease associated with pelvic pain and subfertility. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 3,194 individuals with surgically confirmed endometriosis (cases) and 7,060 controls from A…
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2010
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2010
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2010
the conclusion that women with a high fatty acid intake are less likely to undergo a laparoscopy since a high fatty acid intake can reduce menstrual pain. Finally, laparoscopy as a diagnostic tool will pick up also subtle endometriosis and …
article
2009
BACKGROUND: In the one study examining the relationship, adolescent physical activity was not associated with risk for endometriosis. Case-control studies have shown 40-80% reductions in risk for adult activity, while only an 11% reduction …
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2009
BACKGROUND: Regular exercise has been associated with a 40%-80% reduction in risk for endometriosis in several case-control studies. However, women experiencing symptoms prior to their diagnosis may be less likely to exercise than healthy c…
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2009
letter
2009
Endometriosis impacts quality of life and productivity. Women may require multiple admissions for surgery and prolonged pharmaceutical treatment with problematic side effects. In 2002, the annual costs of endometriosis in the USA were betwe…
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2008
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2008
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2008
review
2008
BACKGROUND: Genetic variation contributes to the risk of developing endometriosis. This review summarizes gene mapping studies in endometriosis and the prospects of finding gene pathways contributing to disease using the latest genome-wide …
article
2006
ObjectiveTo investigate a previously hypothesized relation between natural hair color and endometriosis.DesignProspective cohort study.SettingNurses' Health Study II with 10 years of follow-up.Participant(s)A total of 90,065 women, 25-42 ye…
book-chapter
2004
Because few well-designed epidemiologic studies exist, the incidence, prevalence, and risk factors for endometriosis remain uncertain. However, despite the relative paucity of studies, some consistent observations have emerged-findings that…
article
2004
The authors investigated the relations of demographic, anthropometric, and lifestyle factors with endometriosis in the Nurses' Health Study II prospective cohort. During 10 years of follow-up (1989-1999), 1,721 cases of laparoscopically con…
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2004
ObjectiveTo investigate the relation between the fetal environment and endometriosis.DesignProspective cohort study.SettingNurses' Health Study II with 10 years of follow-up.Participant(s)Eighty-four thousand, four hundred forty-six women a…
article
2004
OBJECTIVE: To clarify the temporal complexities of the relation between reproductive factors and endometriosis. METHODS: We analyzed 10 years of prospective data from the Nurses' Health Study II cohort. Information was obtained through ques…
article
2003
review
2003
The epidemiologic study of endometriosis presents researchers with unique challenges. As a result, few well-designed studies have been published. The authors briefly describe the primary pathogenic hypotheses, discuss methodologic issues sp…
article
2002
A bstract : Two major methodological problems that impact clinical research in endometriosis are the absence of a low‐cost, highly reliable method for diagnosing endometriosis and the possibility that endometriosis is actually multiple diff…
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2002
Advances in understanding the epidemiology of endometriosis have lagged behind other diseases because of methodologic problems related to disease definition and control selection. Nevertheless, a better picture of the epidemiology of endome…