Human reproduction
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Is there an association between body mass index (BMI) and routine semen analysis parameters in adult men? ⋯ All funding for this study was from New Zealand academic and charitable sources including: Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland (New Zealand), the Mercia Barnes Trust of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Nurture Foundation for Reproductive Research. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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Are there differences in composition of the total regulatory T cell (Treg) pool and distinct Treg subsets (naïve CD45RA(+)-Tregs, HLA-DR(-)- and HLA-DR(+)-memory Tregs) between successfully and non-successfully IVF/ICSI-treated women? ⋯ This work was supported by the German Research Council (DFG) grant STE 885/3-2 (to A.S.). All authors declare to have no conflict of interest.
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Multicenter Study
External validation of models and simple scoring systems to predict miscarriage in intrauterine pregnancies of uncertain viability.
Does a logistic regression model and scoring system to predict viability of an intrauterine pregnancy of uncertain viability (PUV) perform as well in an independent patient group as the original patient group? ⋯ T.B. is supported by the Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. This research is supported by Research Council KUL GOA MaNet, iMinds 2012, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office IUAP P719. VVB is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). There are no conflicts of interest.
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Is pre-pregnancy hormonal contraception use associated with the development of pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy? ⋯ The present study was supported by the Norwegian Research Council. None of the authors has a conflict of interest.