{"id":194212,"date":"2019-01-14T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194212"},"modified":"2019-01-14T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:44:18","slug":"miscarriage-womens-issue-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/miscarriage-womens-issue-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscarriage isn’t just a women’s issue, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While it takes both a man and a woman to create a new life, society typically considers the resulting pregnancy a women’s issue, all but dismissing the important role of the father. While there are many misconceptions<\/a> surrounding miscarriage and its causes, one of the largest has been that recurrent pregnancy loss is due to health issues with the mother. Historically, the father’s role in miscarriage was largely ignored. But a\u00a0recent study<\/a> out of Imperial College London finds<\/a> that the cause of miscarriage may lie with faulty sperm, not the mother’s health.<\/p>\n

For the study, scientists examined the sperm of 50 men whose partners had experienced three or more consecutive miscarriages. When compared with the sperm of 60 men whose partners hadn’t experienced any miscarriage, the researchers found that the sperm of the miscarriage set had levels of DNA damage that was twice as high\u00a0as the control group. The research\u00a0revealed that the DNA damage may be triggered by what is known as reactive oxygen species. The scientists are now working to find the cause of this DNA damage, in hopes of shedding more light on the role it plays in miscarriage.<\/p>\n