Aging Males Contribute to Miscarriage Rate 35plus 3Xs the rate of younger than 24
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Aging Males Contribute to Miscarriage Rate
By Peggy Peck, Managing Editor, MedPage Today Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. August 04, 2006
NEW YORK, Aug. 4 -- Paternal age is a significant risk factor for miscarriage, according a case control study of almost 14,000 pregnancies. It showed that men start to go downhill after 35.
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Explain to interested patients that this study suggests paternal age is a risk factor for spontaneous abortion.Women with partners ages 35 or older had nearly a threefold increase in spontaneous abortions compared with women whose partners were younger than 25, wrote Karine Kleinhaus, M.D., M.P.H., of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, and colleagues, in the Aug. 1
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