Overweight and seminal quality: A study of 794 patients

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1739-1743

  Martini, Ana C ^a   Tissera, Andrea ^b   Estofán, Daniel ^c   Molina, Rosa I ^c   Mangeaud, Arnaldo ^d   De Cuneo, Marta Fiol ^a   Ruiz, Rubén D ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b Lab de Andrología y Reprod   (Argentina)

^c CIGOR Centro Integral de Ginecología   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

citric acid; epididymis; fructose; neutral alpha glucosidase; obesity; Overweight; seminal T; sperm quality

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; CITRIC ACID; FRUCTOSE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BODY MASS; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUMPS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; AGED; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLICATION; INFERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CELL SURVIVAL; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERWEIGHT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77954409583     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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