The complex interaction between obesity, metabolic syndrome and reproductive axis: A narrative review

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 457-478

  Michalakis, Konstantinos ^a   Mintziori, Gesthimani ^b   Kaprara, Athina ^b   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^b   Goulis, Dimitrios G ^b  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hypogonadism; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Reproductive Axis; Subfertility

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ANASTROZOLE; ANDROSTANOLONE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHEMERIN; ESTRADIOL; GHRELIN; GONADORELIN; INHIBIN B; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; LETROZOLE; METFORMIN; METRELEPTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OXYNTOMODULIN; RESISTIN; TESTOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMIC AMENORRHEA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOW CALORY DIET; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; THERMOREGULATION; UPREGULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84883141056     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2012.08.012     Document Type: Review

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