Assessment of Fertility and Infertility in Boron-Exposed Turkish Subpopulations
| Autor: | Bekir Sitki Sayli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Gynecology Infertility medicine.medical_specialty Turkish population Offspring business.industry Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism media_common.quotation_subject Biochemistry (medical) Clinical Biochemistry Family aggregation Fertility General Medicine Consanguinity medicine.disease Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry Spouse medicine business Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Biological Trace Element Research. 81:255-267 |
| ISSN: | 0163-4984 |
| DOI: | 10.1385/bter:81:3:255 |
| Popis: | As a part of a work to reveal the health effects of boron and its compounds, fertility and infertility states of sibs of probands, contacted and interviewed in the field, and of their spouses were given. The purposes were to prevent duplications seemingly inevitable in a relatively small community with prevailing consanguinity while analyzing marriages over respective generations and to reveal if there occurred an aggregation of infertile couples. Any family without offspring after about the second year of marriage was considered primary infertile as adopted throughout the study and such families were ascertained through the individual pedigree charts set up according to the instructions of the proband, he (she) himself (herself) being excluded. The rates of childless families of this type were 0.0–3.4% among male and 0.9–3.8% among female sibs of the participant, and 2.3–10.0% among male and 0.0–5.6% among female sibs of his (her) spouse with averages of 2.3% of 1589, 2.6% of 1589, 4.0% of 1314, and 3.3% of 1436 instances, respectively. The differences were insignificant and the rates were not different from those concerning probands themselves and that of a comparable segment of the Turkish population. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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