Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 3 , Pages 714-717 , September 2007

Perceived infertility-related stress correlates with in vitro fertilization outcome

Received 29 June 2006 ,Revised 28 November 2006 ,Accepted 28 November 2006.

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 Presented in part at the Conjoint Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, Montreal, Quebec, October 16–19, 2005 and at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' 54th Annual Clinical Meeting, Washington, DC, May 10, 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(06)04708-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.158

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 3 , Pages 714-717 , September 2007

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