Epidemiology of female infertility; a review of literature

Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 559-567

  Direkvand Moghadam, Ashraf ^b   Delpisheh, Ali ^a   Khosravi, A ^b  

^a ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Department of Clinical Epidemiology Ilam University of Medical Sciences ^*

Author keywords

Female infertility; Risk factors; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHLAMYDIASIS; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBASE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONORRHEA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIFESTYLE; MEDLINE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS INFECTION; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATION; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PREVALENCE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; THYROID DISEASE; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

EID: 84902593453     PISSN: 09731245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13005/bbra/1165     Document Type: Article

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