Infertility among male UK veterans of the 1990-1 Gulf war: Reproductive cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 329, Issue 7459, 2004, Pages 196-200

  Maconochie, Noreen ^a   Doyle, Pat ^a   Carson, Claire ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTAL MAIL; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SPERMATOGENESIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR;

EID: 3543046789     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38163.620972.ae     Document Type: Article

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