Smoking, drinking, tea, coffee and reduced fertility

Main Category: Public Health
Article Date: 26 Feb 2004 - 0:00 PDT

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If you are a woman and you smoke 15 or more cigarettes a day you will probably take twice as long as a non-smoking woman to get pregnant.

A study was carried out at Hull University, UK. The researchers collected data on 2,000 couples from an ante-natal clinic.

If you are a man and drink more than 10 pints of beer a week you will take longer to become a father or have a second child than a man who does not drink that much per week.

The older the couple the longer they will take to conceive.

If the woman is overweight or underweight she will take longer to get pregnant.

If you are a woman and drink more than six cups of tea or coffee a day you will also need more time to get pregnant than a non-coffee, non-tea drinker.

The report did not state what effect tea or coffee has on a man's fertility.