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ReviewReproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)2021

Environment, Lifestyle, and Female Infertility.

Renu Bala, Vertika Singh, Singh Rajender, Kiran Singh

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Review in Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

106 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Infertility and cortisol: a systematic review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023
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  13. Feasibility of 2-Hour vs 24-Hour Delayed Radiography in Oil-Based Hysterosalpingography: A Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Renu Bala *Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, 221005, India.
Vertika Singh *Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, 221005, India.
Singh RajenderDivision of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India. rajender_singh@cdri.res.in.ORCID 0000-0002-4592-6566
Kiran SinghDepartment of Molecular & Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, 221005, India. singhk4@rediffmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2592-6534

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lifestyle factors, which include the practices we adopt in our daily life, have a significant role in shaping our overall health. These lifestyle choices are mainly centered on personal preferences and our surrounding social environment. In addition to lifestyle factors, we continuously interact with our environment, which impacts physiology. Several factors have been claimed to affect women's fertility; lifestyle-related factors, in particular, have received great attention in the last decade. Due to societal and professional pressure, childbearing age in women has gradually shifted to the 30s. Delayed age of childbearing along with modern lifestyle offers a wider window of opportunity for various lifestyle and genetic perturbations to penetrate to affect fertility. While clinical studies have strengthened a direct correlation between lifestyle, environment, and female reproductive health; experimental studies on animal models have investigated their mechanism of action. In most instances, these factors target the neuroendocrine pathways, resulting in metabolic derangements. This review aims to dissect the plausible interconnection of lifestyle and environmental factors with various neuroendocrine pathways and to discuss how it can affect the female physiology in the long-term, resulting in reproductive incompetence.

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FertilityLife StyleReproductive HealthSocial Determinants of HealthAdultComorbidityEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHealth StatusHumansInfertility, FemaleRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsFemale fertilityLifestyle factorsNeuroendocrine signalingReproductive health

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PMID32748224

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