From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts; and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Scientific Affairs, Raritan, New Jersey.
Funded by Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Scientific Affairs, Raritan, New Jersey.
The authors thank the co-investigators for patient recruitment, clinical evaluation, and all necessary data-monitoring and collection: Catherine Dean, Nigel Dalahunty, Janet Gersten, Phillip Hadley, Raymond Hampton, Frederick Jenkin, Vicki Kalen, Rebecca Knight, Samuel McNeeley, Edmond Pack, Howard Reisman, James Rice, Benton Satterfield, Larry Seidman, Herbert Soper, Louise Taber, Steven Thackeray, and Wallace Wilkerson.
Presented in part at the 57th Annual Clinical Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, May 2–6, 2009, Chicago, Illinois.
Corresponding author: Andrew M. Kaunitz, MD, 4555 Emerson Expressway, Suite 220, Jacksonville, FL 32207; e-mail: [email protected].
Financial Disclosure Dr. Kaunitz consults with Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ) and Bayer HealthCare (Wayne, NJ). His department receives funding for conducting clinical trials from Johnson & Johnson and Bayer HealthCare. Dr. Burkman has received research support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Rockville, MD), Yale University (New Haven, CT), and Ortho-McNeil (Raritan, NJ), and he is a consultant for Ortho-McNeil, Columbia Laboratories (Livingston, NJ), Veritech Corporation (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts), and Schering-Plough (Kenilworth, NJ). Drs. Fisher and LaGuardia are employees of Johnson & Johnson.
