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CHE-Fertility has developed a pair of searchable online databases that include news, science abstracts, and organizational reports on fertility and pregnancy compromise and environmental factors.

Online Abstracts Library

News stories and Organizational Reports

The abstracts library catalogues scientific reports (going back more than two decades) relevant to our topic area: contaminant impacts on upstream reproductive health/fertility, including key animal and human data. We’ve also included selected reports on pregnancy loss and birth outcomes that inform patients’ self-identification as subfertile/infertile or experiencing impaired fertility; and selected population-level data reports such as on birth rate and sex ratio alterations. This library was developed by CHE Fertility Participant Sarah Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH, in collaboration with Dr. Pete Myers at Environmental Health Sciences and Dr. Theo Colborn and her colleagues at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX, Inc). 

About the Online Abstracts Library

The CHE-Fertility Online Abstracts Library is a representative sample of the peer-reviewed scientific literature related to fertility, reproductive health and the environment. The library includes scientific studies that link environmental exposures to infertility/reduced fertility in addition to the following reproductive health disorders and diseases associated with fertility and reproduction problems:

• Suboptimal birth outcomes such as stillbirth, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), low birth weight (LBW), prematurity, preterm labor or delivery.
• Conditions that interfere with fertility, such as spontaneous abortion/miscarriage, aneuploidy (abnormal number of chromosomes), endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), premature ovarian failure (early menopause), uterine fibroids, and low sperm count and/or quality.
• Reproductive system birth defects such as hypospadias (defect of the penis), cryptorchidism (undescended testes), altered anogenital distance, and other male and female reproductive tract malformations.
• Altered sex ratios.
• Early or delayed puberty.
• Reproductive cancers, including ovarian, uterine, testicular, and prostate cancers.

These studies were compiled by searching publicly available scientific literature databases using the defined health endpoints as search terms and by regular reviews of the table of contents of scientific journals that regularly publish articles in the field of reproduction, toxicology or environmental health. Studies were prioritized for inclusion if they demonstrated a new finding or otherwise contributed significantly to the overall understanding of the impacts of environmental contaminants on reproductive health. Review articles, epidemiological studies and laboratory animal and wildlife studies were all included.

This library is intended to serve a wide range of users, including researchers, health care providers, health and environment advocates, health impacted communities and the media.

Notes: The CHE-Fertility Online Library is not a fully comprehensive compilation of all studies that link fertility, reproductive health and the environment.

CHE and the Fertility/Reproductive Health Working Group provide these articles as a service to our visitors. CHE does not recommend or endorse any of the items listed in this library but encourages visitors to investigate and evaluate on their own.