Influence of increasing body mass index on semen and reproductive hormonal parameters in a multi-institutional cohort of subfertile men

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1070-1075

  Bieniek, Jared M ^a   Kashanian, James A ^b   Deibert, Christopher M ^c   Grober, Ethan D ^f   Lo, Kirk C ^f   Brannigan, Robert E ^d   Sandlow, Jay I ^e   Jarvi, Keith A ^f  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body mass index; endocrinology; male infertility; obesity; semen analysis

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BLOOD; CELL SHAPE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FERTILITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CELL SHAPE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESTRADIOL; FERTILITY; GONADOTROPINS; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROLACTIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84994812769     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.06.041     Document Type: Article

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