Obesity and male infertility: A practical approach

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 486-495

  Hammoud, Ahmad O ^a   Meikle, A Wayne ^b   Reis, Leonardo Oliveira ^a,c   Gibson, Mark ^a   Peterson, C Matthew ^a   Carrell, Douglas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Endocrinology/Diabetes Research Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BMI; male infertility; overweight; reproductive function; semen parameters; treatment

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORBID OBESITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STOMACH BYPASS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867543032     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1328877     Document Type: Article

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