Are Infertile Men Less Healthy than Fertile Men? Results of a Prospective Case-Control Survey

European Urology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1025-1032

  Salonia, Andrea ^a   Matloob, Rayan ^a   Gallina, Andrea ^a   Abdollah, Firas ^a   Saccà, Antonino ^a   Briganti, Alberto ^a   Suardi, Nazareno ^a   Colombo, Renzo ^a   Rocchini, Lorenzo ^a   Guazzoni, Giorgio ^a   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comorbidities; Health status; Index; Infertility; Male

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; PARAPLEGIA; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FERTILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350574096     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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