Persistent organochlorines, sedentary occupation, obesity and human male subfertility
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Persistent organochlorines, sedentary occupation, obesity and human male subfertility.
BACKGROUND Studies have suggested that the quality of human semen has been declining over recent decades, presumably because of lifestyle or environmental factors. METHODS Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides were analysed in the plasma of 25 men with poor semen quality, 20 men with normal semen quality and idiopathic subfertility and 27 men with normal semen quality and fe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Reproduction
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1460-2350,0268-1161
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh569