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Obesity and female infertility: potential mediators of obesity's impact.

Fertility and sterility - 1 Apr 2017

Broughton Darcy E, Moley Kelle H

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The worldwide upward trend in obesity has been dramatic, now affecting more than 20% of American women of reproductive age. Obesity is associated with many adverse maternal and fetal effects prenatally, but it also exerts a negative influence on female fertility. Obese women are more likely to have ovulatory dysfunction due to dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. Women with polycystic ovarian...

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PMID: 28292619
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.01.017

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