Handbook of fertility : nutrition, diet, lifestyle and reproductive health /: nutrition, diet, lifestyle and reproductive health. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ronald Ross Watson.
• Editors: Watson, Ronald R (Ronald Ross)
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Section A: Overview on fertility; Section B: Bariatric surgery, obesity, and fertility; Section C: Exercise and lifestyle in fertility; Section D: Nutrition and reproduction; Section E: Nutrition and lifestyle in in vitro fertilization; Section F: Nutrition, lifestyle, and male fertility; Acknowledgments; Section A -- Overview on fertility; Chapter 1 -- Perceptions of Environmental Risks to Fertility; Introduction; Infertility -- Definitions, Manifestations, and Risk Factors; Lifestyle and Infertility; Body Weight TobaccoAlcohol; Caffeine; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Summary; Environmental Disruption of Reproductive Health; Human Exposure; Summary; Risk Perception; Environmental Risk Perception; Gender and Risk Perception; Race/Ethnicity and Risk Perception; Population-Based Environmental Risk Perception Studies; Summary; Risk Perception of Environmental Risks to Fertility; Preconception: Adolescents and Young Adults; General Public: Childless Adults and Parents; Occupationally Exposed: Agricultural Workers; Summary; Mitigation of Environmental Risks to Fertility; Barriers to Risk Mitigation Public Health Approaches to InfertilitySummary; Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 -- Paternal smoking as a cause for transgenerational damage in the offspring; Introduction; Tobacco smoke; Genetic, epigenetic, and other transmissible factors; Quality control of paternal germ cells, post-fertilization repair of sperm DNA damage; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 -- Impact of Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy on Conception and Fetal Health through Serum Folate Levels; Introduction; General knowledge on folate; Smoking and pregnancy; Maternal Smoking and Neonatal Serum Folate Levels Neonatal Serum Folate Levels in Preterm InfantsSmoking During Pregnancy May Associate with Asthma or Recurrent Wheezing in Children Through Serum Folate Levels; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 -- The Effect of Maternal Metabolic Health and Diet on the Follicular Fluid Composition and Potential Consequences for...; Introduction; Metabolic health related composition of ovarian follicular fluid and its relation to oocyte and embryo quality parameters; Biochemical Parameters in the Follicular Fluid; Total Protein; Urea; C-reactive Protein; Follicular Fluid Parameters Related to Lipid Metabolism CholesterolCarnitine; Follicular Fluid Parameters Related to Carbohydrate Metabolism; Hormonal Parameters in the Follicular Fluid; Insulin; Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1; Fatty Acids in the Ovarian Follicular Fluid; Fatty Acid Changes Through Diet; Fatty Acid Changes Through Adverse Metabolic Health; The effect of elevated NEFA concentrations on oocyte and embryo quality; Elevated NEFA Concentrations: Consequences for Cumulus, Granulosa, and Theca Cells; Elevated NEFA Concentrations: Consequences for the Oocyte; Elevated NEFA Concentrations: Consequences for the Resultant Embryo; Conclusions
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612.6; Fertility; Diet; Infertility; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Reproductive Health; Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Fertility, Human -- Nutritional aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Reproductive health -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; MEDICAL / Physiology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology; Human reproduction -- Nutritional aspects; Infertility, Female -- Nutritional aspects; Infertility, Male -- Nutritional aspects; Natural family planning; Nutrition; Fertility, Human -- Nutritional aspects; Fertility, Human -- Social aspects; Reproductive health; Electronic books; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128009932; 0128009934
• Related ISBNs: 9780128008720; 0128008725
• Notes: Note: References; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 4, 2015).
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