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Working long hours may make it difficult for women to conceive, research from
Thailand suggests.

In the latest issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (vol 55, p
99), Thai and Danish researchers report that women who work more than 70 hours a
week are twice as likely to suffer from “subfecundity”, defined as taking more
than nine-and-a-half months of trying to become pregnant for the first time.

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