Paternal urinary concentrations of parabens and other phenols in relation to reproductive outcomes among couples from a fertility clinic

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 665-671

  Dodge, Laura E ^a   Williams, Paige L ^a   Williams, Michelle A ^a   Missmer, Stacey A ^a,b,c   Toth, Thomas L ^b,d   Calafat, Antonia M ^e   Hauser, Russ ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; BUTYL PARABEN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; METHYL PARABEN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROPYL PARABEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS WASTAGE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE DENSITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARABENS; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84936091130     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408605     Document Type: Article

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