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Do Alcohol and Lead Change the Sex Ratio?

โœ Scribed by Heather Dickinson; Louise Parker

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
109 KB
Volume
169
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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โœฆ Synopsis

It has been suggested that exposure to alcohol and lead may decrease testosterone levels in men which in turn may lead to an increase in the proportion of girls among their offspring. This hypothesis is tested on a new dataset of 268109 children born in Cumbria from 1950-89. From fathers' occupations given on birth certificates, we calculated the sex ratio for offspring of men exposed occupationally to alcohol and lead. We carried out a meta-analysis of the present and previous studies. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that alcohol and lead lower the sex ratio.

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