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Female obesity adversely affects assisted reproductive technology (ART) pregnancy and live birth rates
Author(s) -
Brian T. Luke,
Marc B. Brown,
Judy E. Stern,
Stacey A. Missmer,
Victor Y. Fujimoto,
Richard E. Leach
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
human reproduction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446
H-Index - 226
eISSN - 1460-2350
pISSN - 0268-1161
DOI - 10.1093/humrep/deq306
Subject(s) - assisted reproductive technology , infertility , live birth , pregnancy , gynecology , demography , birth weight , obesity , medicine , obstetrics , biology , endocrinology , genetics , sociology
Obesity has risen among women in the USA, including those seeking infertility treatments. In 2007, height and weight were added to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Online Reporting System (SART CORS), permitting calculation of BMI (weight/height(2)) for the first time using this national dataset.

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