Nicholson WK

No ORCID on file · 9 papers in corpus · active 2013-2024

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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 …

2023
A Comparative Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life 1 Year Following Myomectomy or Uterine Artery Embolization: Findings from the COMPARE-UF Registry.
Journal of women's health (2002) ·doi:10.1089/jwh.2022.0133

Objective: To compare 12-month post-treatment health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and symptom severity (SS) changes among patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids (SUF) not seeking fertility and undergo a hysterectomy, abdominal myome…

2023
Ethnoracial Differences in Premenopausal Hysterectomy: The Role of Symptom Severity.
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000005225

ObjectiveTo evaluate whether greater symptom severity can explain higher hysterectomy rates among premenopausal non-Hispanic Black compared with White patients in the U.S. South rather than potential overtreatment of Black patients.MethodsU…

2022
Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life After Procedural Intervention for Uterine Fibroids.
Journal of women's health (2002) ·doi:10.1089/jwh.2020.8915

Background: Quality of life (QOL) and psychological health has been reported to be decreased among women with gynecological conditions such as uterine fibroids (UFs). Materials and Methods: Women enrolled in the Comparing Options for Manage…

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 …

2019
Short-Term Health-Related Quality of Life After Hysterectomy Compared With Myomectomy for Symptomatic Leiomyomas.
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000003354

ObjectiveTo compare short-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) 6-12 weeks after hysterectomy or myomectomy for the treatment of symptomatic leiomyomas.MethodsWe conducted a prospective comparative effectiveness analysis of data. In a…

2018
The Comparing Options for Management: PAtient-centered REsults for Uterine Fibroids (COMPARE-UF) registry: rationale and design.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2018.05.004

BackgroundUterine fibroids are common in premenopausal women, yet comparative effectiveness research on uterine fibroid treatments is rare.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to design and establish a uterine fibroid registry based in th…

2013
The impact of uterine leiomyomas: a national survey of affected women.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2013.07.017

ObjectiveWe sought to characterize the impact of uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) in a racially diverse sample of women in the United States.Study designA total of 968 women (573 white, 268 African American, 127 other races) aged 29-59 years w…