Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1739-1743 , October 2010

Overweight and seminal quality: a study of 794 patients

  • Ana C. Martini, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Established investigator from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ana C. Martini, Ph.D., Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Santa Rosa 1085, X5000ESU, Córdoba, Argentina (TEL and FAX: 54-351-4332019).
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  • Andrea Tissera, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio de Andrología y Reproducción; Córdoba, Argentina
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  • Daniel Estofán, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Centro Integral de Ginecología, Obstetricia y Reproducción; Córdoba, Argentina
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  • Rosa I. Molina, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Centro Integral de Ginecología, Obstetricia y Reproducción; Córdoba, Argentina
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  • Arnaldo Mangeaud, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Cátedra de Estadística y Biometría, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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  • Marta Fiol de Cuneo, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Established investigator from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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  • Rubén D. Ruiz, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Established investigator from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Instituto de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Received 3 July 2009 ,Revised 5 November 2009 ,Accepted 9 November 2009.

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 Supported by grants from the Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

 A.C.M. has nothing to disclose. A.T. has nothing to disclose. D.E. has nothing to disclose. R.I.M. has nothing to disclose. A.M. has nothing to disclose. M.F.C. has nothing to disclose. R.D.R has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)04046-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.11.017

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1739-1743 , October 2010

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