Infertility is a major public health problem that affects more than 3 million French people according to the report by Professor Samir Hamamah, head of the reproductive biology department at Montpellier University Hospital and President of the French Federation for the Study of Reproduction ( FFER).
In France and elsewhere in the world, one in six people encounter difficulties having a child.
This trend is explained above all by increasingly later procreation, but it is also influenced by a set of societal, genetic, environmental (endocrine disruptors, etc.) and behavioral factors (smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, etc.). ), still very poorly understood.
In this context, the Head of State recently announced a
“major plan to combat infertility”
.
Although the decline in female fertility is perhaps more often highlighted, male infertility remains the cause of childbearing difficulties in one in three cases.
Indeed, since the 70s…
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