Women’s fertility – an essential component of health and well-being

Summary

To understand health, well-being, and disease risk in women, it is crucial to understand the causes and consequences of reduced fertility. In this project, we will examine about 1000 young women between 18 and 24 years and describe their status for fertility. We will study the role of both genes and environment . The women are participants in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child study (MoBa) and have been followed since the fetal life, thus we can study how influences in the fetus and childhood are related to fertility in young adulthood. We will also study the mothers in MoBa and how their fertility relates to health later in life.

The results from the project will provide increased knowledge about Norwegian women's fertility and what it means for their health in general.