Rebecca Arend

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2025

The Association Between Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Exposure and Cerebral Meningioma Among a Medicaid Population

Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) ·doi:10.3390/epidemiologia6040058

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is a synthetic contraceptive that can be used orally or as a once-every-three-month injection (i.e., depot MPA [dMPA]). Prior research has reported an increased association between dM…

observational 2020

Large, Non-Cavity Distorting Intramural Leiomyomas Decrease Leukemia Inhibitory Factor in the Secretory Phase Endometrium

Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-019-00056-x

Despite mounting evidence that large intramural leiomyomas decrease fecundity during in vitro fertilization cycles, few studies have demonstrated a mechanism for this impact. We hypothesize that large intramural leiomyomas (IM) decrease the…