Natural conception after age 45 in Bedouin women, a uniquely fertile population

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 305-309

  Gielchinsky, Yuval ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^b   Simon, Alex ^a   Mor Yossef, Shlomo ^a   Laufer, Neri ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bedouin; Maternal age; Reproductive aging; Spontaneous conception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH RATE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33750964869     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-006-9058-9     Document Type: Article

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