Varicocoele among 1 300 000 Israeli adolescent males: Time trends and association with body mass index

Andrology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 663-669

  Rais, A ^a,b   Zarka, S ^a,b   Derazne, E ^a,c   Tzur, D ^a   Calderon Margalit, R ^d   Davidovitch, N ^a,e   Afek, A ^c   Carel, R ^b   Levine, H ^a,d  

^a Medical Corps   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Andrology; Body mass index; Environmental health; Epidemiology; Male infertility; Reproductive health; Secular trends; Varicocoele

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNDERWEIGHT; VARICOCELE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; YOUNG ADULT; ANDROLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SECULAR TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; ISRAEL; MALE; OBESITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

ANDROLOGY; BODY MASS INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE INFERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SECULAR TRENDS; VARICOCOELE;

EID: 84883017076     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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