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Intake of wine, beer and spirits and waiting time to pregnancy.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12923158     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
BACKGROUND: A high intake of alcohol may prolong waiting time to pregnancy, whereas a moderate intake may have no or perhaps even a positive effect on fecundity. In previous studies on fecundity, different types of beverages have not been taken into consideration, although moderate wine drinkers appear to have fewer strokes, lung and digestive tract cancers, and overall mortality than both abstainers and moderate drinkers of beer or spirits. We examined the association between different types of alcoholic beverages and waiting time to pregnancy. METHODS: Self-reported data were used for 29,844 pregnant women, recruited to the Danish National Birth Cohort in 1997-2000. Main outcome measures were odds ratios for a prolonged waiting time to pregnancy according to consumption of wine, beer and spirits. RESULTS: All levels of wine intake compared with non-wine drinking or with consumption of beer or spirits had subfecundity odds ratios between 0.7 and 0.9. No association was seen regarding beer drinking, while the association with spirits was J-shaped. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that wine drinkers have slightly shorter waiting times to pregnancy than both non-wine drinkers and consumers of other alcoholic beverages. Whether this is an effect of wine itself or the characteristics of the wine drinker is not known.
Authors:
Mette Juhl; Jørn Olsen; Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen; Morten Grønbaek
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Human reproduction (Oxford, England)     Volume:  18     ISSN:  0268-1161     ISO Abbreviation:  Hum. Reprod.     Publication Date:  2003 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2003-08-18     Completed Date:  2004-04-21     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8701199     Medline TA:  Hum Reprod     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1967-71     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. mju@ssi.dk
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Alcohol Drinking*
Beer*
Cohort Studies
Female
Fertility*
Humans
Odds Ratio
Pregnancy*
Time Factors
Wine*

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