Open AccessRE: "PARENTAL INFERTILITY AND SEMEN QUALITY IN MALE OFFSPRING: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY"
Author(s) -
Tina Kold Jensen,
Niels Jørgensen,
Camilla Asklund,
Niels E. Skakkebæk
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33
H-Index - 256
eISSN - 1476-6256
pISSN - 0002-9262
DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwm250
Subject(s) - offspring , semen quality , body mass index , fertility , infertility , pregnancy , affect (linguistics) , semen , medicine , male infertility , demography , semen analysis , obstetrics , gynecology , biology , psychology , andrology , population , environmental health , endocrinology , genetics , sociology , communication
In their recent Journal article, ''Parental Infertility and Semen Quality in Male Offspring: A Follow-up Study,'' Ramlau-Hansen et al. (1) replicated our findings of reduced semen quality among men whose mothers received fertility treatment (2). However, they argued that our findings may have been confounded by maternal body mass index. We did obtain information about maternal body mass index before a woman's pregnancy with the included son, and we did take that factor into account. It did not affect our findings, how- ever; therefore, we did not adjust for maternal body mass index in the final analyses. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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