Background The negative impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring semen
quality is well established. Less is known about the impact of paternal smoking. Methods We …

Background Maternal smoking during pregnancy has been reported to negatively impact
sperm counts of the sons. Sufficient data on the effect of paternal smoking is lacking …

Background Maternal smoking during pregnancy has repeatedly been associated with
decreased sperm counts in sons. Nevertheless, our team recently detected a lower total …

Background Growing evidence suggests intergenerational effects of paternal pre‐
conceptional smoking through the germ line, but its specific impact on offspring semen …

A few studies indicate that exposure to maternal smoking during fetal life decreases semen
quality in adult life, but the results are inconsistent and retrospectively collected smoking …

Between 1996 and 1999, the authors invited all young men from five European countries
who were undergoing compulsory medical examination for possible military service to …

STUDY QUESTION How are temporal trends in lifestyle factors, including exposure to
maternal smoking in utero, associated to semen quality in young men from the general …

Maternal smoking during pregnancy constitutes a potential, major risk factor for adult male
reproductive function. In the hitherto largest longitudinal cohort, we examined biomarkers of …

Background. There has been an apparent decline in sperm density during the last 5
decades in Denmark, a country in which women have among the highest rates of smoking in …

The aim of our study was to evaluate the relationship between maternal tobacco
consumption during pregnancy and sperm parameters and sexual hormonal levels of their …