Checks whether a pesticide exposure is linked to female fertility
Studies women aged 18 to 39 seeking help for couple infertility in Guadeloupe.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe
- Where
- Pointe-à-Pitre, GuadeloupeSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Chlordecone Exposure and Female Fertility
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 634 people, planned
- Started
- 26 Jan 2024
- Expected to end
- 26 Jan 2028
- Type of study
- Observational
- Record updated
- 17 November 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for women aged 18 to 39 who come to the Caribbean Center for Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital of Guadeloupe because they and their partner cannot conceive.
- Age
- 18 to 39 years
- Sex
- Women only
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Women aged from 18 to 39 years
- Consulting for couple infertility at the Centre Caribéen de Médecine de la Reproduction (CCMR, Caribbean Center for Reproductive Medicine) of the University Hospital of Guadeloupe
- Free, informed and written consent
Who cannot take part
- Women aged from 18 to 39 years
- Consulting for couple infertility at the Centre Caribéen de Médecine de la Reproduction (CCMR, Caribbean Center for Reproductive Medicine) of the University Hospital of Guadeloupe
- Free, informed and written consent
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 39 years old?
Where in Guadeloupe
- CHU de la GuadeloupePointe-à-Pitre, GuadeloupeContact: Léah MICHINEAUTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Chlordecone is an organochlorine pesticide used in the French West Indies (FWI) from 1972 to 1993 to control the banana root borer. Due to its very long persistence the population continues to be exposed to this chemical through their food consumptions. Although, chlordecone have been associated in animal study impairment of ovarian reserve, to date, no study has been published concerning the link between chlordecone exposure and female fertility. The main objective of this project is to study the association between chlordecone exposure and anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) in women consulting for couple infertility in Guadeloupe.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- KARU-FERTIL: Chlordecone Exposure and Female Fertility
- Plain-language title
- Checks whether a pesticide exposure is linked to female fertilityGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07231510, who can take part
- Record updated
- 17 November 2025