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Jump to full article: Reuters Health, 2003-06-09
Intro: Sons of mothers who smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day during pregnancy have lower sperm counts than sons whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study from Denmark.
In the study, sons of smokers also tended to have lower levels of a hormone that has been linked to sperm production and to have sperm that was less dense than average, researchers report.
"There has been an apparent decline in sperm density during the last five decades in Denmark, a country in which women have among the highest rates of smoking in Europe," Dr. Lone Storgaard, of Aarhus University Hospital, and colleagues note in the journal Epidemiology.
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