A maternal vegetarian diet in pregnancy is associated with hypospadias
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in BJU International
- Vol. 85 (1) , 107-113
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1464-410x.2000.00436.x
Abstract
Objective To investigate the possible role of the maternal diet, particularly vegetarianism and consumption of phytoestrogens, in the origin of hypospadias, which is reported to be increasing in pre...Keywords
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