Background The preconception period represents transgenerational opportunities to
optimize modifiable risk factors associated with both short and long-term adverse health …

Overweight, obesity, and their comorbidities remain global health challenges. When
established early in life, overweight is often sustained into adulthood and contributes to the …

For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand
and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask …

Preconception care (PCC) involves a wide-ranging set of interventions to optimize health
prior to pregnancy. These interventions seek to enhance conception rates, pregnancy …

Infertility can place a significant burden on couples and individuals when trying to conceive.
Approximately 20-30% of all cases of infertility are due to male-related factors. Whatever the …

Background The partners' role in determining the alcohol consumption behavior of pregnant
women is not well studied. We measured alcohol use before and during pregnancy in …

There is mounting evidence that obesity has negative repercussions for reproductive
physiology in males. Much of this evidence has accumulated from rodent studies employing …

Health status during the reproductive years influences fecundity, fertility, and the future
health of males and their offspring. There remains a dearth of literature examining men's …

Background 'Preconception health'or 'pre-pregnancy health'are terms used to describe the
health status of males and females prior to pregnancy. The goal of preconception health …

New fathers face multiple changes as they take on this complex, demanding, and continually
shifting role. The current study aimed to understand these experiences, especially the ways …