Obesity: Modern man's fertility nemesis

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 480-489

  Cabler, Stephanie ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Flint, Margot ^b   Du Plessis, Stefan S ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

adipokines; infertility; leptin; obesity; spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; RESISTIN; SIBUTRAMINE; TESTOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ADIPOCYTOKINE; SEX HORMONE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE MUTATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPECTOMY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCROTAL LIPECTOMY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPLICATION; FERTILITY; GENETICS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOKINES; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BODY MASS INDEX; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FERTILITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OBESITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77954393963     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2010.38     Document Type: Review

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