Obesity and Anovulatory Infertility: A Review

Overview

Journal JBRA Assist Reprod

Specialty Reproductive Medicine

Date 2017 Jan 5

PMID 28050960

Citations 20

Authors

Christiane R Giviziez

Eliane G M Sanchez

Mario S Approbato

Monica C S Maia

Eliamar Aparecida B Fleury

Reinaldo S A Sasaki

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Abstract

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.

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