Caffeinated beverages and decreased fertility.
104 healthy women who had been attempting to become pregnant for three months were interviewed about their use of caffeinated beverages, alcohol, and cigarettes. In their subsequent cycles, women who consumed more than the equivalent of one cup of coffee per day were half as likely to become pregnant, per cycle, as women who drank less. A dose-response effect was present.
Wilcox
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Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Weinberg
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Baird
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D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001628:Beverages; D002110:Caffeine / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003069:Coffee / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000139:chemically induced*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking
D003069:Coffee; D002110:Caffeine