The impact of a decline in fecundity and of pregnancy postponement on final number of children and demand for assisted reproduction technology | Zendy

Henri Léridon | Zendy; Rémy Slama | Zendy

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The impact of a decline in fecundity and of pregnancy postponement on final number of children and demand for assisted reproduction technology

Author(s) -

Henri Léridon,

Rémy Slama

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/den106

Subject(s) - fertility , fecundity , infertility , postponement , pregnancy , demography , reproduction , assisted reproductive technology , cohort , natural fertility , medicine , gynecology , obstetrics , miscarriage , pregnancy rate , population , biology , family planning , economics , ecology , operations management , sociology , research methodology , genetics

Over the past decades, the proportion of couples who resort to infertility treatment has tremendously increased, and fertility (the final number of children) sharply declined. We explored the roles of two potential causes of these trends: a temporal decline in the couples' fecundability and a postponement of age at initiation of pregnancy attempts.

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