Richard Legro

Interim Chair, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

Hershey Med Ctr
Hershey,
rsl1@psu.edu

Most Recent Publications

Polycystic ovary syndrome

Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Helena Teede, Robert J. Norman, Richard Legro, Mark O. Goodarzi, Anuja Dokras, Joop Laven, Kathleen Hoeger, Terhi T. Piltonen, 2024, Nature Reviews Disease Primers

International PCOS guideline clinical research priorities roadmap: a co-designed approach aligned with end-user priorities in a neglected women's health condition

H. J. Teede, M. Gibson, J. Laven, A. Dokras, L. J. Moran, T. Piltonin, M. Costello, A. Mousa, A. E. Joham, C. T. Tay, Wiebke Arlt, Ricardo Azziz, Adam Balen, Lisa Bedson, Lorna Berry, Jacky Boivin, Jacqueline Boyle, Leah Brennan, Wendy Brown, Tania Burgert, Maureen Busby, Carolyn Ee, Rhonda M. Garad, Cheryce Harrison, Roger Hart, Marie Misso, Rachel Morman, Angelica Lindén Hirschberg, Tuong Ho, Kathleen Hoeger, Sonia Jitpiriyaroj, Cailin Jordan, Richard S. Legro, Rong Li, Marla Lujan, Ronald C. Ma, Darren Mansfield, Kate Marsh, Edgar Mocanu, Robert J. Norman, Sharon Oberfield, Dawn Kimberly Hopkins, Malika Patel, Alexia Peña, Leanne Redman, Luk Rombauts, Daniela Romualdi, Duru Shah, Poli Mara Spritzer, Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, Shakila Thangaratinam, Mala Thondan, Eszter Vanky, Bassel H. Al Wattar, Chandrika Wijeyaratne, Selma Witchel, Dongzi Yang, Bulent O. Yildiz, 2024, EClinicalMedicine

Correlation of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Phenotypes With Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes

Jessica L. Chan, Richard S. Legro, Esther Eisenberg, Margareta D. Pisarska, Nanette Santoro, 2024, Obstetrics and Gynecology on p. 543-549

The effect of improved metabolic syndrome parameters on live birth

Trimble Spitzer, Michael P. Diamond, Robert Wild, Richard Legro, Heping Zhang, Fangbai Sun, Shen Ling, Nanette Santoro, 2024, Fertility and Sterility on p. 373-375

Best methods in reproductive medicine clinical trials

Richard S. Legro, 2024, Fertility and Sterility on p. 897-898

Antimüllerian hormone level predicts ovulation in women with polycystic ovary syndrome treated with clomiphene and metformin

Allison S. Komorowski, Lydia Hughes, Prottusha Sarkar, David A. Aaby, Ajay Kumar, Bhanu Kalra, Richard S. Legro, Christina E. Boots, 2024, Fertility and Sterility on p. 660-668

Ovarian Morphology in Non-Hirsute, Normo-Androgenic, Eumenorrheic Premenopausal Women from a Multi-Ethnic Unselected Siberian Population

Ludmila Lazareva, Larisa Suturina, Alina Atalyan, Irina Danusevich, Iana Nadelyaeva, Lilia Belenkaya, Irina Egorova, Kseniia Ievleva, Natalia Babaeva, Daria Lizneva, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, 2024, Diagnostics

Total and bioavailable 25-hydroxyvitamin D is not associated with improved sexual dysfunction following vitamin D supplementation in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a pilot study

Kira Eickman, Rose Maxwell, Lynda K. McGinnis, Frank Stanczyk, Richard Legro, Steven R. Lindheim, 2024, Journal of Sexual Medicine on p. 240-247

Obesity: Recognition and Treatment in Women

Erin E. Flaherty, Richard S. Legro, 2024, on p. 56-64

Effect of Incorporating 1 Avocado per Day Versus Habitual Diet on Vascular Function in Adults With Abdominal Obesity: An Ancillary Study of HAT, a Randomized Controlled Trial

Kristin M. Davis, Kristina S. Petersen, Nirupa R. Matthan, Richard S. Legro, Penny M. Kris-Etherton, 2024, Journal of the American Heart Association

Most-Cited Papers

Polycystic ovary syndrome

Ricardo Azziz, Enrico Carmina, Zijiang Chen, Andrea Dunaif, Joop S.E. Laven, Richard S. Legro, Daria Lizneva, Barbara Natterson-Horowtiz, Helena J. Teede, Bulent O. Yildiz, 2016, Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Recommendations from the international evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome

Helena J. Teede, Marie L. Misso, Michael F. Costello, Anuja Dokras, Joop Laven, Lisa Moran, Terhi Piltonen, Robert J. Norman, Marianne Andersen, Ricardo Azziz, Adam Balen, Estifanos Baye, Jacqueline Boyle, Leah Brennan, Frank Broekmans, Preeti Dabadghao, Luigi Devoto, Didier Dewailly, Linda Downes, Bart Fauser, Stephen Franks, Rhonda M. Garad, Melanie Gibson-Helm, Cheryce Harrison, Roger Hart, Rachel Hawkes, Angelica Hirschberg, Kathleen Hoeger, Femke Hohmann, Samantha Hutchison, Anju Joham, Louise Johnson, Cailin Jordan, Jayashri Kulkarni, Richard S. Legro, Rong Li, Marla Lujan, Jaideep Malhotra, Darren Mansfield, Kate Marsh, Veryan McAllister, Edgar Mocanu, Ben W. Mol, Ernest Ng, Sharon Oberfield, Sasha Ottey, Alexia Peña, Jie Qiao, Leanne Redman, Raymond Rodgers, 2018, Human Reproduction on p. 1602-1618

Recommendations from the international evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome

Scientific statement on the diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and molecular genetics of polycystic ovary syndrome

Daniel A. Dumesic, Sharon E. Oberfield, Elisabet Stener-Victorin, John C. Marshall, Joop S. Laven, Richard S. Legro, 2015, Endocrine Reviews on p. 487-525

The management of anovulatory infertility in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: An analysis of the evidence to support the development of global WHO guidance

Adam H. Balen, Lara C. Morley, Marie Misso, Stephen Franks, Richard S. Legro, Chandrika N. Wijeyaratne, Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Bart C.J.M. Fauser, Robert J. Norman, Helena Teede, 2016, Human Reproduction Update on p. 687-708

American association of clinical endocrinologists, American college of endocrinology, and androgen excess and pcos society disease state clinical review: Guide to the best practices in the evaluation and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome - Part 1

Neil F. Goodman, Rhoda H. Cobin, Walter Futterweit, Jennifer S. Glueck, Richard S. Legro, Enrico Carmina, 2015, Endocrine Practice on p. 1291-1300

Transfer of fresh versus frozen embryos in ovulatory women

Yuhua Shi, Yun Sun, Cuifang Hao, Heping Zhang, Daimin Wei, Yunshan Zhang, Yimin Zhu, Xiaohui Deng, Xiujuan Qi, Hong Li, Xiang Ma, Haiqin Ren, Yaqin Wang, Dan Zhang, Bo Wang, Fenghua Liu, Qiongfang Wu, Ze Wang, Haiyan Bai, Yuan Li, Yi Zhou, Mei Sun, Hong Liu, Jing Li, Lin Zhang, Xiaoli Chen, Songying Zhang, Xiaoxi Sun, Richard S. Legro, Zi Jiang Chen, 2018, New England Journal of Medicine on p. 126-136

Frozen versus fresh single blastocyst transfer in ovulatory women: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial

Daimin Wei, Jia Yin Liu, Yun Sun, Yuhua Shi, Bo Zhang, Jian Qiao Liu, Jichun Tan, Xiaoyan Liang, Yunxia Cao, Ze Wang, Yingying Qin, Han Zhao, Yi Zhou, Haiqin Ren, Guimin Hao, Xiufeng Ling, Junzhao Zhao, Yunshan Zhang, Xiujuan Qi, Lin Zhang, Xiaohui Deng, Xiaoli Chen, Yimin Zhu, Xiaohong Wang, Li Feng Tian, Qun Lv, Xiang Ma, Heping Zhang, Richard S. Legro, Zi Jiang Chen, 2019, The Lancet on p. 1310-1318

Large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome suggests shared genetic architecture for different diagnosis criteria

Felix Day, Tugce Karaderi, Michelle R. Jones, Cindy Meun, Chunyan He, Alex Drong, Peter Kraft, Nan Lin, Hongyan Huang, Linda Broer, Reedik Magi, Richa Saxena, Triin Laisk, Margrit Urbanek, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Juan Fernandez-Tajes, Anubha Mahajan, Benjamin H. Mullin, Bronwyn G.A. Stuckey, Timothy D. Spector, Scott G. Wilson, Mark O. Goodarzi, Lea Davis, Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch, André G. Uitterlinden, Verneri Anttila, Benjamin M. Neale, Marjo Riitta Jarvelin, Bart Fauser, Irina Kowalska, Jenny A. Visser, Marianne Andersen, Ken Ong, Elisabet Stener-Victorin, David Ehrmann, Richard S. Legro, Andres Salumets, Mark I. McCarthy, Laure Morin-Papunen, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, John R.B. Perry, Andrea Dunaif, Joop Laven, Steve Franks, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Corrine K. Welt, 2018, PLoS Genetics

American association of clinical endocrinologists, American college of endocrinology, and androgen excess and pcos society disease state clinical review: Guide to the best practices in the evaluation and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome - Part 2

Neil F. Goodman, Rhoda H. Cobin, Walter Futterweit, Jennifer S. Glueck, Richard Legro, Enrico Carmina, 2015, Endocrine Practice on p. 1415-1426

News Articles Featuring Richard Legro

Jul 05, 2022

Daily avocados improve diet quality, help lower cholesterol levels

Eating one avocado a day for six months was found to have no effect on belly fat, liver fat or waist circumference in people with overweight or obesity, according to a new study. However, it did lead to a slight decrease in unhealthy cholesterol levels.

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