Contents: Original Research
McNicholas, Colleen DO, MSCI; Maddipati, Ragini MSW; Zhao, Qiuhong MS; Swor, Erin BS; Peipert, Jeffrey F. MD, PhD
Division of Clinical Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Corresponding author: Colleen McNicholas, DO, MSCI, Washington University in St. Louis, Division of Clinical Research, 4533 Clayton Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110; e-mail: [email protected].
This project was supported by the Society of Family Planning (SFPRF 12-1). This research is also supported in part by the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) grant UL1 RR024992 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award No. T32HD055172.
The authors thank the Columbia University Medical Center Core Laboratory for assisting with serum etonogestrel testing.
Financial Disclosure Dr. Peipert receives research funding from Bayer, Teva, and Merck and served on Advisory Boards for Teva, Bayer, and Watson/Activitis. The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.