Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

The Influence of Health and Cognition on Fertility

Susie Lee, Kieron Barclay, Natalie Nitsche; in Collaboration with Martin Kolk (Stockholm University, Sweden), Eugene Gardner, Matthew Hurles (both: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

This project examines how dimensions of health such as body mass index and physical fitness, as well as cognition scores, are associated with completed cohort fertility, age at childbearing, parity progression, and other dimensions of fertility.  Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Fertility Development, Health Care, Public Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology

Publications

Lee, D. S.; Batyra, E.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Wilde, J.:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290:1998, 1–16. (2023)
Lee, D. S.; Nitsche, N.; Barclay, K. J.:
Population Studies 77:2, 241–261. (2023)    
Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:
Nature 603:7903, 858–863. (2022)
Lee, D. S.; Knittel, T.; Deschner, T.; Heistermann, M.; Higham, J. P.:
Hormones and Behavior 139:105123, 1–11. (2022)
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
Population and Development Review 46:4, 757–785. (2020)    
Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:
bioRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)    
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-020. (2019)    
Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286:1902. (2019)
Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-020. (2017)    
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