Dietary fat and semen quality among men attending a fertility clinic

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1466-1474

  Attaman, Jill A ^a   Toth, Thomas L ^a   Furtado, Jeremy ^b   Campos, Hannia ^b   Hauser, Russ ^a,b   Chavarro, Jorge E ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Fat; Gas chromatography; Male infertility; Semen quality

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT INTAKE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; OBESITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SMOKING HABIT; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY;

EID: 84860142713     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des065     Document Type: Article

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