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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2010 Feb 20;81(6):474–480. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.01.016

Table 4.

EE PK estimates and measures of ovarian activity during one cycle of OC use

Maximum follicular diameter (mm)
(n = 25)
Maximum E2 (pg/mL)
(n = 25)
Variable Correlation
coefficient1
p-value1 Correlation
coefficient1
p-value1
AUC2 EE
(pg*h/mL)
−0.40 0.05 −0.41 0.04
Cmax EE
(pg/mL)
−0.22 0.29 −0.35 0.09
Cmin EE
(pg/mL at t24)
−0.44 0.03 −0.37 0.07
1

Spearman rank correlation.

2

AUC calculated from t0 to t24.