Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 6 , Pages 1875-1879 , April 2010

Decreased sperm motility is associated with air pollution in Salt Lake City

This research project was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, San Francisco, November, 2008.

  • Ahmad Hammoud, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ahmad O. Hammoud, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Utah, Suite 2B200, 30 North 1900 East, Salt lake City, UT.
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  • Douglass T. Carrell, Ph.D., H.C.L.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Andrology and IVF laboratories, Department of Surgery (Urology) and Physiology, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • Mark Gibson, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • Matt Sanderson, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Andrology and IVF laboratories, Department of Surgery (Urology) and Physiology, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • Kirtly Parker-Jones, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • C. Matthew Peterson, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Salt Lake City, Utah

Received 21 November 2008 ,Revised 11 December 2008 ,Accepted 16 December 2008.

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 A.H. has nothing to disclose. D.C. has nothing to disclose. M.G. has nothing to disclose. M.S. has nothing to disclose. K.P-J. has nothing to disclose. C.M.P. is a shareholder at Clinical Innovations, and a study PI with Serono and Ferring.

PII: S0015-0282(08)04772-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.089

Fertility and Sterility
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