Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 737-744 , February 2010

When do involuntarily infertile couples choose to seek medical help?

  • Caroline Moreau, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, “Epidemiology, Demography, and Social Sciences,” Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey
    • University Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Caroline Moreau, Ph.D., Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, 82 rue du Général Leclerc, 94216 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France (FAX: +33(0) 1 45 21 20 75).
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  • Jean Bouyer, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, “Epidemiology, Demography, and Social Sciences,” Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • University Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • INED, Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France
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  • Béatrice Ducot, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, “Epidemiology, Demography, and Social Sciences,” Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • University Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • INED, Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France
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  • Alfred Spira, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, “Epidemiology, Demography, and Social Sciences,” Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • University Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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  • Rémy Slama, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 822, “Epidemiology, Demography, and Social Sciences,” Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    • Inserm, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U823 Institut Albert Bonniot, Avenir Team “Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Fecundity and Reproduction,” Grenoble, La Tronche, France

Received 24 September 2007 ,Revised 3 October 2008 ,Accepted 3 October 2008.

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 C.M. has nothing to disclose. J.B. has nothing to disclose. B.D. has nothing to disclose. A.S. has nothing to disclose. R.S. has nothing to disclose.

 Funded by the French Ministry of Health (Direction Générale de la Santé). Caroline Moreau gratefully acknowledges the financial support of NICHD and the Philippe foundation during the research and writing of this article.

PII: S0015-0282(08)04134-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.011

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 737-744 , February 2010

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