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Jin Liang Zhu1, Carsten Obel, Olga Basso
1Department of Epidemiology, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark. zjl@soci.au.dk
Background:
Nonright-handedness, particularly mixed-handedness, has been associated with a number of medical conditions. We examined whether handedness was associated with fecundity, measured by time to pregnancy.
Methods:
We used data on parental handedness and time to pregnancy from 2 regional birth cohorts in Denmark: the Aalborg-Odense Birth Cohort (1984-1987) and the Aarhus Birth Cohort (1990-1992) (n = 5808 and 3426, respectively). We applied discrete-time survival analysis to assess fecundity in relation to handedness.
Results:
In both cohorts, we saw a slightly lower fecundity in individuals who reported being mixed-handed.
Conclusions:
Our data showed a modest association between mixed-handedness and subfecundity, which suggests that these traits may share a common etiology, perhaps tracing back to the prenatal period.
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