Peri-implantation intercourse lowers fecundability

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 178-182

  Steiner, Anne Z ^a   Pritchard, David A ^b   Young, Steven L ^a   Herring, Amy H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

fecundability; implantation; Intercourse; time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; OBESITY; OVULATION; OVULATION RATE; PERIIMPLANTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SMOKING; TIME TO PREGNANCY; UNDERWEIGHT;

FECUNDABILITY; IMPLANTATION; INTERCOURSE; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY;

ADULT; COITUS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION, DELAYED; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY;

EID: 84903380134     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.03.017     Document Type: Article

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