Persistent environmental pollutants and couple fecundity: The LIFE study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-236

  Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a   Sundaram, Rajeshwari ^a   Schisterman, Enrique F ^a   Sweeney, Anne M ^b   Lynch, Courtney D ^c   Gore Langton, Robert E ^d   Maisog, José ^a   Kim, Sungduk ^a   Chen, Zhen ^a   Barr, Dana B ^e  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conception; Cotinine; Fecundity; Organochlorine pesticides; Perfuorochemicals; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COTININE; ESTRONE GLUCURONIDE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; OXYCHLORDANE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; AGE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRACEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NOTE; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84873351225     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205301     Document Type: Note

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