Semen quality and time to pregnancy: The Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment Study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 453-462

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

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

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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

^d EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; fecundity; semen; sperm; time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; SEMEN; SPERM; TIME TO PREGNANCY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY;

EID: 84895069680     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.10.022     Document Type: Article

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