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Clinical Trial: Pesticides, industrial chemicals and semen quality
This study is currently recruiting patients.
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Purpose
We are conducting an epidemiologic study to investigate the relationship between exposure to pesticides and industrial chemicals and semen quality. We are collecting blood and semen samples in several hundred men to investigate whether these chemicals adversely effect semen quality.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Infertility
Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Natural History, Cross-Sectional, Defined Population, Retrospective/Prospective Study
Official Title: Environmental Organochlorines and Semen Quality
Expected Total Enrollment: 1000
Study start: October 1999; Expected completion: October 2004
We are specifically investigating the relationship between PCBs and chlorinated pesticides and semen quality. We are also studying whether these chemicals effect reproductive hormones.
Eligibility
Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years - 51 Years, Genders Eligible for Study: Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Criteria
Location and Contact Information
Massachusetts
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States; Recruiting
More Information
Record last reviewed: August 2002
Last Updated: October 13, 2004
Record first received: February 27, 2001
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00011713
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on 2005-04-08
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov
Cache Date: April 9, 2005
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