Women's Health: Top Reproductive Problems

Sources Medically Reviewed on 08/01/2019 Reviewed by Traci C. Johnson, MD on August 01, 2019
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SOURCES:
Journal of Reproduction & Infertility: “Sexual Dysfunction in Women Undergoing Fertility Treatment in Iran: Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors.”
Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics: “Endometriosis and infertility.”
UpToDate: “Fertility preservation in women with early-stage cervical cancer (Beyond the Basics).”
Medscape: “Infertility Management of Couples With HIV.”
National Institutes of Health: “About Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS),” “What Are the Symptoms of POI?”
Womenshealth.gov: “Glossary: Primary Ovarian Insufficiency,” “Infertility.”
Mayo Clinic: Uterine Fibroids: “Overview,” “Symptoms and Causes,” “Treatment.”
Interstitial Cystitis Association: “Pregnancy & IC.”
Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine: “Body Composition: A predictive factor of cycle fecundity.”
Fertility and Sterility: “A retrospective cohort study to evaluate the impact of meaningful weight loss on fertility outcomes in an overweight population with infertility.”
Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine: “Types of reproductive disorders in underweight and overweight young females and correlations of respective hormonal changes with BMI.”
Epidemiology: “Body Mass Index and Ovulatory Infertility.”
AOGS journal: “Maternal underweight and the risk of spontaneous abortion.”
CDC: “Pelvic Inflammatory Disease,” “Reproductive and Birth Outcomes.”
ToxTown: “Dioxins,” “Phthalates.”
Obstetrics & Gynecology: “Increased infertility with age in men and women.”
Reviewed by Traci C. Johnson, MD on August 01, 2019
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