Time-to-pregnancy among male greenhouse workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-190

  Bretveld, R ^a   Kik, S ^a   Hooiveld, M ^a   Van Rooij, I ^a   Zielhuis, G ^a   Roeleveld, N ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COFFEE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREENHOUSE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SMOKING HABIT; WORK;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GARDENING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40149094935     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.036269     Document Type: Article

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