2016
DOI: 10.5935/1518-0557.20160046
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Obesity and anovulatory infertility: A review

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 infert… Show more

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“…However most of the published literature shows that obesity decreases the fertility outcomes in infertile women however no one have mentioned the Cutoff for BMI to observed the decreased fertility. 16,17 In present study average BMI for combined, primary and secondary infertile patients was 21.80Kg/m 2 , 21.84Kg/m 2 and 21.7Kg/m 2 respectively. So most of the included patients are within the normal range of BMI and this reason might be responsible for we did not observe the effect of the BMI on fertility outcome.…”
Section: Patient's Demographics and Clinical Parameterssupporting
confidence: 45%
“…However most of the published literature shows that obesity decreases the fertility outcomes in infertile women however no one have mentioned the Cutoff for BMI to observed the decreased fertility. 16,17 In present study average BMI for combined, primary and secondary infertile patients was 21.80Kg/m 2 , 21.84Kg/m 2 and 21.7Kg/m 2 respectively. So most of the included patients are within the normal range of BMI and this reason might be responsible for we did not observe the effect of the BMI on fertility outcome.…”
Section: Patient's Demographics and Clinical Parameterssupporting
confidence: 45%
“…The excess estrogens produced by the adipose tissue provides a growth signal for the endometrium that is unopposed by progesterone. Obesity also leads to higher rates of anovulation [ 21 ] with a relative risk above 2 for body mass index greater than 29 [ 22 ]; however, most obese women have normal ovulatory menstrual cycles [ 23 ]. In anovulatory women, the lack of ovulation and corpus luteum production keeps progesterone levels low.…”
Section: Estrogen-associated Risk Factors For Endometrial Cancermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Extreme body weights affect reproductive function through changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, causing periods of oligo-anovulation, as well as menstrual disorders ( Brewer & Balen, 2010 ; Giviziez et al , 2016 ; Grodstein et al , 1994 ; Sathya et al , 2010 ). When the fat mass is too low, the secretion of gonadotropins and, consequently, the reproductive capacity is reduced.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%