Time to pregnancy and exposure to pesticides in Danish farmers. ASCLEPIOS Study Group
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Time to pregnancy and exposure to pesticides in Danish farmers. ASCLEPIOS Study Group.
OBJECTIVE Circumstantial evidence suggests that organic farmers may have higher sperm count than other men, but comprehensive epidemiological studies of male fecundity among farmers have never been carried out. A substantial increase of sperm count is expected to translate into a shorter time to pregnancy--the number of menstrual cycles or months it takes a couple to get pregnant from discontin...
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15 صفحه اولFarmers’ Exposure to Pesticides: Toxicity Types and Ways of Prevention
Synthetic pesticides are extensively used in agriculture to control harmful pests and prevent crop yield losses or product damage. Because of high biological activity and, in certain cases, long persistence in the environment, pesticides may cause undesirable effects to human health and to the environment. Farmers are routinely exposed to high levels of pesticides, usually much greater than tho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.4.278