Combined oral contraceptive utilization and uterine fibroid incidence: A prospective study in a cohort of African-American women

• Sarah R. Hoffman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: srhoffma@alumni.unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5629-160X

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• Jennifer S. Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Michele Jonsson Funk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Michael G. Hudgens,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Charles Poole,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Wanda K. Nicholson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, University of North Carolina Center for Women’s Health Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Program on Women’s Endocrine and Reproductive Health, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Donna D. Baird,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Quaker E. Harmon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5866-848X

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