Female obesity impairs in vitro fertilization outcome without affecting embryo quality

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-454

  Bellver, José ^a   Ayllón, Yanira ^a   Ferrando, Marcos ^a   Melo, Marco ^a   Goyri, Eduardo ^a   Pellicer, Antonio ^a   Remohí, José ^a   Meseguer, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

embryo quality; implantation; IVF outcome; live birth; Obesity; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHASE; OBESITY; OOCYTES; OVERWEIGHT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; THINNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74549226501     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.032     Document Type: Article

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