Recent insights into the influence of female bodyweight on assisted reproductive technology outcomes

Women's Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Pinborg, Anja ^a   Petersen, Gitte Lindved ^b   Schmidt, Lone ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

body mass index; in vitro fertilization; infertility; obesity; overweight

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABOR INDUCTION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL OBESITY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNDERWEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OBESITY; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871241985     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.12.67     Document Type: Review

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