Tina K Jensen

..Saturated fat intake has been associated with both cardiovascular disease and cancer risk, and a newly published study found an association between saturated fat intake and a lower sperm concentration in infertile men...

..Future studies should be large, randomized placebo-controlled trials...

..Semen quality may therefore be a fundamental biomarker of overall male health...

..The current and projected widespread use of ART in Denmark may be a sign of such an emerging public health problem...

..To study the relationship between self-rated health (SRH) and semen quality...

..Therefore, the authors cannot exclude the possibility of a threshold above which cola, and possibly caffeine, negatively affects semen quality. Alternatively, the less healthy lifestyle of these men may explain these findings...

..Although the cause of these findings is unknown, they raise concern about possible late effects of fertility treatment. Larger-scale studies of children born after fertility treatment should be performed...

..It is also important to bear in mind that many workers in the non-Western world still are exposed to substances that are banned in the Western world, sometimes in high concentrations...

..65; 95% CI 0.47-0.91). This study supports that smoking is hazardous to the female fetus not only in the short term but also affects her future ability to conceive and makes it even more important to advise pregnant women to stop smoking...

..In a survey among female twins born from 1953 to 1976, their time to pregnancy did not differ from singletons and can be considered to represent the fecundity of the general population...

..Although the advantage may be less, Faroese women can still safely breastfeed their children...

..We propose that researchers in other countries with low and falling fertility rates among young women should consider the possibility that semen quality of their younger male cohorts may also have deteriorated...

..Maternal smoking may have long-term implications for the reproductive health of the offspring. This is another good reason to advise pregnant women to avoid smoking...

..To examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and semen quality among young men from the general population...

..The purpose of this study was to assess possible effects of prenatal exposure to currently used pesticides on children's growth, endocrine and reproductive function...

..Risk factors for congenital cryptorchidism were investigated in a prospective birth cohort study in Denmark and Finland from 1997 to 2001...

..These secular trends may also be reflected by changes in Leydig cell function...

..Prenatal exposure to alcohol can adversely affect the fetus. We investigated the association between maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and cryptorchidism (undescended testis) among newborn boys...

..We explored if the PON1 Q192R genotype affects cardiovascular risk factors in school-age children prenatally exposed to pesticides...

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..The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between these factors while controlling for the effects of current smoking in young adulthood...

..The aim of this prospective study was to investigate whether occupational pesticide exposure during pregnancy causes adverse effects on the reproductive development in the male infants...

..To describe associations between serum inhibin-b and sperm counts, adjusted for effect of time of blood sampling, in larger cohorts than have been previously reported...

..We investigated a possible human association between maternal exposure to 27 organochlorine compounds used as pesticides and cryptorchidism among male children...

..In this study, we explored a possible role of the polymerase gamma (POLG) gene polymorphism, recently reported to be associated with male infertility in some populations...

..To estimate the incidence of nutritional rickets and the incidence and prevalence of hereditary rickets...

..Hypothetically, this could be due to selection bias. The aim of this study was to determine age at reaching pubertal milestones in healthy internationally adopted girls in a prospective, clinical study...

..All medical records from patients with rickets referred to or discharged from hospitals in Southern Denmark from 1985 to 2005 were identified by register search...

..Recent studies have indicated that internationally adopted girls are at high risk of developing precocious puberty. Clinical studies including a contemporary control group are lacking...

..We aimed to assess the risk of developing precocious puberty in intercountry adoptees, children immigrating with their family, and descendants of immigrants living in Denmark...

..The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and incidence of precocious pubertal development in Denmark in a 9-year period...

..A structured interview combined with measurement of exhaled CO is a valid and reliable method for estimating ETS exposure to the fetus and young infant...

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..This research effort can hardly be carried out without major support from governments and granting agencies making it possible to fund collaborative projects within novel research networks of scientists...

..This review focuses on discussion surrounding how assisted reproductive technology (ART) can impact declining fertility rates...

..The combined evaluation of serum LH and testosterone levels in the evaluation of testicular failure has not been widely advocated...

..Behavior change bias can be minimized by assessing the covariates at the beginning of unprotected intercourse. More complete inference is possible if the study design covers the whole population, not just those who achieve a pregnancy...

..Only the adjusted relative risks for 10 or more drinks/week compared with no intake were statistically significant. Both male and female alcohol intakes during the week of conception increased the risk of early pregnancy loss...

..Possible negative trends in male reproductive health are still debated, and their effect on human fertility might be negligible. Time-to-pregnancy (TTP) is a functional measure of couple fecundability...

..Design Analysis of four large population surveys. Setting Denmark and the United Kingdom. Participants 49 506 pregnancies...

..NCAR's utility could be improved if it returned to including "minor" hypospadias. Meanwhile routine data such as HES are potentially suitable for surveillance of this condition...