Publications

Adolescent Health

Psychological symptoms in perimenarcheal adolescents: association with PCOS risk factors

https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2025.1551958

Vanden Brink H, McCormick KC, Lujan ME, Chang J, Ipp L, Mudrak EL, Alladeen A, Lamar H, Kim JY, Mendle J. (2025).

Changes in the Bile Acid Pool and Timing of Female Puberty: Potential Novel Role of Hypothalamic TGR5. Endocrinology

https://doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqae098.

Vanden Brink H, Vandeputte D, Brito IL, Ronnekleiv OK, Roberson MS, Lomniczi A.

The efficacy of sleep lifestyle interventions for the management of overweight or obesity in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17708-6

Liu, R., Figueroa, R., Vanden Brink, H., Vorland, C. J., Auckburally, S., Johnson, L., Garay, J., Brown, T., Simon, S., & Ells, L. (2024).

Combined Oral Contraceptive Treatment Does Not Alter the Gut Microbiome but Affects Amino Acid Metabolism in Sera of Obese Girls With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.887077.

Tayachew, B*., Vanden Brink, H.*, Garcia-Reyes, Y., Rahat, H., D’Alessandro, A., Frank, D. N., Robertson, C. E., Silveira, L., Kelsey, M., Pyle, L., & Cree-Green, M. (2022).

Ovarian Morphology by Transabdominal Ultrasound Correlates With Reproductive and Metabolic Disturbance in Adolescents With PCOS.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.09.005.

Rackow, B. W.*, Vanden Brink, H.*, Hammers, L., Flannery, C. A., Lujan, M. E., & Burgert, T. S. (2018).

Obesity Management in Female Adolescents

https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.15238

Roth LP, Bernier A, Gulley L, Lohse K, Whooten R, Allen L, Vanden Brink H, Sfeir J, Simon S, Finn E, Cree MG. (2025).

Ovarian Morphology in Girls (OMG) Study: Early Evidence for Ovarian Morphology as a Biomarker of Reproductive and Metabolic Health During the First Gynecological Year.

https://doi.org/ 10.1016/jpag-2024-02004

Vanden Brink H*, Burgert TS, Barral R, Gadiraju M, Lujan ME*. (2024).

Gender diversity in adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome.

https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2022-0249

Schweisberger, C. L., Hornberger, L., Barral, R., Burke, C., Paprocki, E., Sherman, A., Vanden Brink, H., & Burgert, T. S. (2022).

GnRH Agonist Improves Hyperandrogenism in an Adolescent Girl With an Insulin Receptor Gene Mutation

https://doi.org/10.1210/js.2019-00045

Paprocki, E., Barral, R. L., Vanden Brink, H., Lujan, M., & Burgert, T. S. (2019).

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Characterization of Ovarian Antral Follicle Dynamics

Impact of a hypocaloric dietary intervention on antral follicle dynamics in eumenorrheic women with obesity.

https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deae017

Oldfield, A. L., Carter, F. E., Reeves, R. E., Jarrett, B. Y., Vanden Brink, H., & Lujan, M. E. (2024).

Ultrasound Characterization of Disordered Antral Follicle Development in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa515

Jarrett, B. Y., Vanden Brink, H., Oldfield, A. L., & Lujan, M. E. (2020).

Age-related changes in luteal dynamics: preliminary associations with antral follicular dynamics and hormone production during the human menstrual cycle.

https://doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000001021

Baerwald, A., Vanden Brink, H., Hunter, C., Beuker, D., Lim, H., Lee, C. H., & Chizen, D. (2018).

Obesity is associated with alterations in antral follicle dynamics in eumenorrheic women.

https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead007

Oldfield, A. L., Vanden Brink, H., Carter, F. E., Jarrett, B. Y., & Lujan, M. E. (2023).

Endometrial development during the transition to menopause: preliminary associations with follicular dynamics.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13697137.2020.1721455

Baerwald, A., Vanden Brink, H., Lee, C., Hunter, C., Turner, K., & Chizen, D. (2020).

Associations Between Antral Ovarian Follicle Dynamics and Hormone Production Throughout the Menstrual Cycle as Women Age.

https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2015-2643

Vanden Brink, H., Robertson, D. M., Lim, H., Lee, C., Chizen, D., Harris, G., Hale, G., Burger, H., & Baerwald, A. (2015).