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Time trends in biological fertility in Britain

M Joffe1

  • 1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK. m.jofe@ic.ac.uk

Lancet (London, England)
|June 20, 2000
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
BiologyCohort AnalysisDemographic FactorsDeveloped CountriesEuropeFertilityFertility MeasurementsGenitaliaGenitalia, MaleNorthern EuropePhysiologyPopulationPopulation DynamicsPregnancy RateReproductionResearch MethodologyResearch ReportRetrospective StudiesSemenSeminal VesiclesStudiesTime FactorsUnited KingdomUrogenital System

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