Fertility

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Fertility

Environmental and lifestyle factors affecting fertility

Some environmental factors can affect fertility especially in the initial phase of life (from intrauterine development to adolescence), causing infertility, as well as andrological and gynecological diseases of various kinds in adulthood.

Exposure to chemicals called endocrine disruptors (pesticides, some heavy metals, additives and preservatives of industrial and consumer products, chemicals of natural origin such as polyphenols) can affect the reproductive system.

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS, the National Institute of Health in Italy) has a key role in research in this area, contributing to the increase in knowledge, the creation of a multidisciplinary network and the promotion of information campaigns.



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Dipartimenti/Centri/Servizi

Departments Food safety, nutrition and veterinary public health

Target

Citizen

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Document

Topics

Nutrition and food safety Fertility Gender and health Prevention and health promotion Rare diseases Women's, children's and adolescents' health Chemical substances and health protection Nutrition Chemical and toxicological food safety Microbiological food safety Diet-related diseases Environmental and lifestyle factors affecting fertility Salute riproduttiva Diet Breastfeeding Work-life Alcohol Obesity Lifestyles Salute del bambino Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium Salute nei primi mille giorni Advice to the consumer