Civil war and male infertility in Lebanon

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 340-345

  Kobeissi, Loulou ^a   Inhorn, Marcia C ^a   Hannoun, Antoine B ^b   Hammoud, Najwa ^b   Awwad, Johnny ^b   Abu Musa, Antoine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Lebanon; Male infertility; reproductive toxins; stress; war

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNAPPING; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; WAR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEBANON; MALE; SEMEN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 47849097994     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.061     Document Type: Article

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