Occupation and male infertility: Glycol ethers and other exposures

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 708-714

  Cherry, N ^a,b,d   Moore, H ^a,b   McNamee, R ^a,b   Pacey, A ^a,c   Burgess, G ^a,b   Clyma, J A ^a,b   Dippnall, M ^a,b   Baillie, H ^a,c   Povey, A ^a,b  

^a Participating Centres of Chaps ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC SOLVENT;

ABSTINENCE; ANDROLOGY; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EJACULATION; EMPLOYMENT; HAZARD; HISTORY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MANUAL LABOR; NURSE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEORECORDING; WORK;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHYLENE GLYCOLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 53149097741     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.035824     Document Type: Article

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