Studying Human Fertility and Environmental Exposures
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Methodologic and statistical approaches to studying human fertility and environmental exposure.
Although there has been growing concern about the effects of environmental exposures on human fertility, standard epidemiologic study designs may not collect sufficient data to identify subtle effects while properly adjusting for confounding. In particular, results from conventional time to pregnancy studies can be driven by the many sources of bias inherent in these studies. By prospectively c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.112-a604a