Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Winters, Brian R., MD
• Walsh, Thomas J., MD

Titel

The Epidemiology of Male Infertility

Ist Teil von

• Urologic clinics of North America, 2014-02, Vol.41 (1), p.195-204

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The purpose of this review is to integrate understanding of epidemiology and infertility. A primer on epidemiologic science and an example disease for which the design of epidemiologic investigations is readily apparent are provided. Key features of infertility that limit epidemiologic investigation are described and a survey of available data on the epidemiology of infertility provided. Finally, the work that must be completed to move this area of research forward is proposed, and, with this new perspective of “infertility as a disease,” improvements envisioned in public health that may be gained through improved understanding of the epidemiology of male infertility.