Declining trends in conception rates in recent birth cohorts of native Danish women: A possible role of deteriorating male reproductive health

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-92

  Jensen, Tina Kold ^a,b   Sobotka, Tomáš ^c   Hansen, Martin A ^a   Pedersen, Anette Tønnes ^a   Lutz, Wolfgang ^c,d   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c VIENNA INSTITUTE OF DEMOGRAPHY   (Austria)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fertility rate; Male reproductive health; Total natural conception rate

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

EID: 40349091341     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2007.00827.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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