Obesity and increased risk for oligozoospermia and azoospermia

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 440-442

  Sermondade, Nathalie ^a,b   Faure, Céline ^a,b   Fezeu, Léopold ^b   Lévy, Rachel ^a,b   Czernichow, Sébastien ^c,d   Jensen, Tina Kold ^e   Van Wely, Madelon ^f   Cao, Jia ^g   Martini, Ana Carolina ^h   Chavarro, Jorge ⁱ   Koloszar, Sandor ^j   Ramlau Hansen, Cecilia H ^k   Steegers Theunissen, Régine P M ^l   Zorn, Branko ^m   Polotsky, Alex J ⁿ   Eskenazi, Brenda ^o   Magnusdottir, Elin V ^p   Fejes, Imre ^q   Hercberg, Serge ^b,r  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^k AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^l ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^q AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^r Hô Pital Jean Verdier   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; OBESITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; BODY MASS INDEX; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84858391597     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1382     Document Type: Article

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