Trends of racial disparities in assisted reproductive technology outcomes in black women compared with white women: Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology 1999 and 2000 vs. 2004-2006

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 626-635

  Seifer, David B ^a,b   Zackula, Rosey ^c   Grainger, David A ^d  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^d Women's Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; ART; black women; delivery of health care, SART; ethnicity; IVF; race; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; KANSAS; MALE; PREJUDICE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74449085138     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.084     Document Type: Article

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