Fertility and Sterility
Volume 84, Issue 4 , Pages 966-974 , October 2005

Time to pregnancy and pregnancy outcome

  • Anna Axmon, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Anna Axmon, Ph.D., Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Psychiatric Epidemiology, University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden (FAX: 46-46-173669
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  • Lars Hagmar, M.D.

Received 29 October 2004 ,Revised 18 April 2005 ,Accepted 18 April 2005.

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 Supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, the Medical Faculty at Lund University, and Region Skåne.

PII: S0015-0282(05)01237-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.04.030

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 84, Issue 4 , Pages 966-974 , October 2005

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