The direct health services costs of providing assisted reproduction services in overweight or obese women: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 633-639

  Maheshwari, Abha ^a   Scotland, Graham ^b   Bell, Jacqueline ^b   McTavish, Alison ^c   Hamilton, Mark ^a   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b The School of Medicine and Dentistry   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERDEEN MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ART; Cost; IVF; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNITY WARD; OBESITY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNDERWEIGHT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 61449185539     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den424     Document Type: Article

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