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Victoria Tsagareli1, Manny Noakes, Robert J Norman
1The University of Adelaide, Research Centre for Reproductive Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Adelaide, Australia. victoria.tsagareli@adelaide.edu.au
Fertility and Sterility
|June 6, 2006
Abstract:
A low-calorie diet in a group of overweight or obese patients for a short period before and during IVF results in variable tolerance to the dietary regime and an unsatisfactory IVF outcome.
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