Reassessing fecundity in women with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH): Normal pregnancy rate but reduced fertility rate

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 833-837

  Conway, Gerard S ^a   Casteràs, Anna ^a   De Silva, Purnami ^a   Rumsby, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MINERALOCORTICOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADULT; BIRTH RATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149158523     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03563.x     Document Type: Article

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