Global decline in semen quality: ignoring the developing world introduces selection bias

Global decline in semen quality: ignoring the developing world introduces selection bias

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dc.contributor.author deonandan, raywat
dc.contributor.author jaleel, marya
dc.date.accessioned 2012-03-25T18:04:41Z
dc.date.available 2012-03-25T18:04:41Z
dc.date.created 2012 en_US
dc.date.issued 2012-03-25
dc.identifier International Journal of General Medicine, 2012, 5:303-306 en_US
dc.identifier.other http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S30673 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=9545 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22670
dc.description.abstract Multiple studies from around the world have suggested that semen quality is declining globally. However, all studies suffer from variable semen sampling criteria, selection bias with respect to the types of men volunteering to participate, and a bias with respect to a tendency to examine only samples from high-income countries. This heterogeneity in approaches, especially given the undersampling of rural and less affluent men from low-income countries, calls into question researchers' claims of universally declining semen norms. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject human semen en_US
dc.subject quality en_US
dc.subject global en_US
dc.subject developing world en_US
dc.title Global decline in semen quality: ignoring the developing world introduces selection bias en_US
dc.type Article en_US

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