Racial and ethnic differences in reproductive potential across the life cycle

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 681-690

  Butts, Samantha F ^a   Seifer, David B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ART outcomes; Asian women; black women; Health disparities; Hispanic women; menopause; puberty; race; racial disparities; reproductive aging

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

AGING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIFE CYCLE; LIVE BIRTH; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENOPAUSE; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 75749156159     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.10.047     Document Type: Article

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