Open AccessFatherhood and the risk of cardiovascular mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
Author(s) -
Michael L. Eisenberg,
Yikyung Park,
A. R. Hollenbeck,
Larry I. Lipshultz,
Arthur Schatzkin,
Mark J. Pletcher
Publication year - 2011
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/der305
Subject(s) - cardiovascular health , medicine , gerontology , demography , disease , sociology
Fertility potential and reproductive fitness may reflect a man's future health, given that over one-third of the male human genome is involved in reproduction. We sought to determine if offspring number predicts cardiovascular death in the US men.
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