Open AccessObesity and anovulatory infertility: A review
Author(s) -
Christiane Ricaldoni Giviziez,
Eliane G M Sanchez,
Mário Silva Approbato,
Mariana Maia,
Eliamar A. B. Fleury,
Reinaldo Satoru Azevedo Sasaki
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jbra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1518-0557
pISSN - 1517-5693
DOI - 10.5935/1518-0557.20160046
Subject(s) - overweight , anovulation , obesity , infertility , body mass index , medicine , gynecology , portuguese , public health , female infertility , obstetrics , pregnancy , insulin resistance , polycystic ovary , biology , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , genetics
This global overweight and obesity epidemics has become one of the largest public health problem worldwide and is increasingly more common among women in reproductive age. Along with the prevalence of overweight women, there is an increase in women with anovulatory infertility. Thus, we carried out a bibliographic research in the PubMed, Lilacs and SciELO databases, using the combinations in Portuguese, Spanish and English of the following descriptors: "Body Mass Index", "obesity", "overweight", "female infertility" and "anovulation". The aim of this study was to assess the effects of obesity on the ovulatory profile of infertile women in the available literature.