Wanda K. Nicholson
ORCID: 0000-0003-2645-0328
· 10 papers in corpus
observational
2025
Introduction: Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine devices (LNG-IUDs) can be effective treatments for benign gynecological conditions, but there may be ethno-racial differences in how patients receive treatment. Methods: Data were from a h…
observational
2025
INTRODUCTION: Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine devices (LNG-IUDs) can be effective treatments for benign gynecological conditions, but there may be ethno-racial differences in how patients receive treatment. METHODS: Data were from a …
observational
2024
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 …
observational
2023
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…
observational
2023
OBJECTIVE: To 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. METH…
other
2020
OBJECTIVES: To characterize reasons for hormonal contraceptive (HC) use in 1,455 African-American women, aged 23-35 years. STUDY DESIGN: The community-based cohort members were recruited from the Detroit, Michigan area in 2010-2012. HC his…
other
2020
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 …
observational
2019
OBJECTIVE: To compare short-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) 6-12 weeks after hysterectomy or myomectomy for the treatment of symptomatic leiomyomas. METHODS: We conducted a prospective comparative effectiveness analysis of data…
observational
2018
BACKGROUND: Uterine fibroids are common in premenopausal women, yet comparative effectiveness research on uterine fibroid treatments is rare. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to design and establish a uterine fibroid registry based…
observational
2013
OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize the impact of uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) in a racially diverse sample of women in the United States. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 968 women (573 white, 268 African American, 127 other races) aged 29-59 y…