Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 1 , Pages 216-220 , June 2010

An assessment of lifestyle modification versus medical treatment with clomiphene citrate, metformin, and clomiphene citrate–metformin in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome

  • Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh, Research and Clinical Center for Infertility, Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran (FAX: +98 351 8247087).
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  • Mojgan Javedani

Received 22 October 2008 ,Revised 12 February 2009 ,Accepted 25 February 2009.

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 M.A.K. has nothing to disclose. M.J. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00505-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.078

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 1 , Pages 216-220 , June 2010

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