Gonadotropin dose is negatively correlated with live birth rate: Analysis of more than 650,000 assisted reproductive technology cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1145-1152.e5

  Baker, Valerie L ^a   Brown, Morton B ^b   Luke, Barbara ^c   Smith, George W ^d   Ireland, James J ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gonadotropin dose; In vitro fertilization; live birth rate

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT;

ADULT; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; DOSE RESPONSE; FACTUAL DATABASE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84946485469     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.07.1151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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