1. Do X Rays Affect Men's Babies?
- Author
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Hollander, Dore
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FATHERS , *X-rays , *NEWBORN infants , *DIAGNOSIS , *HEALTH surveys - Abstract
The article cites a study which reports that diagnostic likelihood of exposing the testes to radiation and are taken within one year before men father a child may have detrimental effects on the infant. Among 7,678 infants born in 1991-1992 in Avon, England, 172 had fathers who had undergone an X ray of the abdominal or pelvic area in the year before conception. The study found that these infants weighed, on average, 79 grams less at birth than those whose fathers had not had such a test. It suggest an association between men's exposure to X-rays and effects on reproductive out-comes.
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- 1997