Circulating maternal testosterone concentrations at 18 weeks of gestation predict circulating levels of antimüllerian hormone in adolescence: A prospective cohort study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1544-1547

  Hart, Roger ^a   Sloboda, Deborah M ^b   Doherty, Dorota A ^a,c   Norman, Robert J ^d   Atkinson, Helen C ^a   Newnham, John P ^a,c   Dickinson, Jan E ^a   Hickey, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescence; AMH; PCO; PCOS; Raine cohort

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; BLOOD; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MOTHERS; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77956191576     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.12.060     Document Type: Article

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