Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 1016-1017 , September 2009

Body mass index vis-à-vis total sperm count in attendees of a single andrology clinic

Received 2 October 2008 ,Revised 8 December 2008 ,Accepted 15 December 2008.

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 S.C.N. has nothing to disclose. M.A. has nothing to disclose. K.M. has nothing to disclose. I.I. has nothing to disclose. E.V. has nothing to disclose. E.K. has nothing to disclose. G.M. has nothing to disclose. E.B. has nothing to disclose. D.A.A. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)04776-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.093

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 1016-1017 , September 2009

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