Effect of male age on fertility: evidence for the decline in male fertility with increasing age
Effect of male age on fertility: evidence for the decline in male fertility with increasing age
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DOI:
10.1016/s0015-0282(03)00366-2
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发表时间:
2003-06-01
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Killick, SR
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作者:
Hassan, MAM;Killick, SR
Objective: To evaluate the effect of men's age on time to pregnancy (TTP) using age at the onset of pregnancy attempts, adjusting for the confounding effects of women's age, coital frequency, and life-style characteristics.Design: Observational study.Setting: Teaching hospital in Hull, United Kingdom.Patient(s): Two thousand one hundred twelve consecutive pregnant women.Intervention(s): A questionnaire inquiring about TTP, contraceptive use, pregnancy planning, previous subfertility, previous pregnancies, age, and individual life-style characteristics of both partners.Main Outcome Measure(s): Tithe to pregnancy, conception rates, and relative risk of subfecundity for men and women's age groups.Result(s): As with women's age, increasing men's age was associated with significantly rising TTP and declining conception rates. A fivefold increase in TTP occurred with men's age >45 years. Relative to men 45 years were 4.6-fold and 12.5-fold more likely to have had TTP of >1 or >2 years. Restricting the analysis to partners of young women revealed similar effects of increasing men's age. Women >35 years were 2.2-fold more likely to be subfertile than women