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Article: Spontaneous abortion is more likely in young women with older male partners.
- Article from:
- OBGYN & Reproduction Week
- Article date:
- June 23, 2003
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2003 JUN 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from France, "couples in industrialized countries tend to delay attempting to have children, which may lower their chances of live birth."
French researchers, "assessed the association between male age and the risk of spontaneous abortion between weeks 5 and 20 of pregnancy, controlling for female age. They interviewed by telephone a random cross-sectional population of 1,151 French women who had been pregnant between 1985 and 2000 (participation rate, 73%)."
"A total of 12.2% of the 2414 pregnancies resulted in spontaneous abortion. Semiparametric regression was used to define a ...