No evidence for decreasing semen quality in four birth cohorts of 1,055 Danish men born between 1950 and 1970

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1059-1064

  Rasmussen, Per E ^a   Erb, Karin ^a   Westergaard, Lars G ^a   Laursen, Steen B ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Male factor infertility; Semen quality; Semen volume; Sperm concentration; Time related change

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 0031466596     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00377-4     Document Type: Article

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