Predicting fertility

Human Fertility

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-117

  Maheshwari, Abha ^a   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^a   Johnson, Neil P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Age; Fertility; Ovarian reserve; Prediction models; Predictors

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADOTROPIN;

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE FERTILITY; OBESITY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; SMOKING; STANDARD;

AGING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OVARIAN FUNCTION TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 46649099653     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14647270701832346     Document Type: Article

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