Reproductive health of male Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kelsall, Helen L ^a   Sim, Malcolm R ^a   Ikin, Jillian F ^a   Forbes, Andrew B ^a   McKenzie, Dean P ^a   Glass, Deborah C ^a   Ittak, Peter ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANCER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREMATURITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK; SAMPLE; SEX; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STILLBIRTH; VETERAN; WAR; ADULT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GULF WAR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTION; VETERANS;

EID: 34249791504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-79     Document Type: Article

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