Racial and ethnic disparities in assisted reproductive technology pregnancy and live birth rates within body mass index categories

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1661-1666

  Luke, Barbara ^a   Brown, Morton B ^b   Stern, Judy E ^c   Missmer, Stacey A ^d,e   Fujimoto, Victor Y ^f   Leach, Richard ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ART live birth rates; ART outcomes; ART pregnancy rates; ethnicity; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; OBESITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACISM;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952991895     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.12.035     Document Type: Article

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