Exploration of the association between obesity and semen quality in a 7630 male population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Tsao, Chih Wei ^a   Liu, Chin Yu ^b   Chou, Yu Ching ^c   Cha, Tai Lung ^a   Chen, Shih Chang ^d   Hsu, Chien Yeh ^e,f  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^f TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; SPERM MORPHOLOGY; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TAIWAN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84926329170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119458     Document Type: Article

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