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Body Mass Index and Sperm Quality: Is there a Relationship? by NataliiaMykhailivna Kozopas; OlgaIhorivna Chornenka; MykolaZinoviyovych Vorobets; LubovYevhenivna Lapovets; HannaVasylivna Maksymyuk is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Context: Obesity and infertility are the major global public health problems. The evidences of adverse impact of adiposity on male fertility are contradictory. ## Aim: The objective of the study was to determine the effect of overweight and obesity on ejaculate quality, in particular, sperm parameters and biochemical markers. ## Subject and Design: The study involved 152 men who were distributed into three groups according to the body mass index (BMI, kg/m^2^): control group with normal values (18.5–24.9), preobese (25.0–29.9), and obese (≥30.0). ## Materials and Methods: Semen analysis included parameters: volume, sperm concentration and total count, morphology, progressive (PR) and total motility. Levels of fructose, citric acid, and zinc were measured in seminal plasma. ## Statistic: The results of the studies were analyzed using StatPlus: mac (AnalystSoft Inc., version 6). The Mann–Whitney U-test was used to compare groups. Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated. __P__ < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. ## Results: No significant differences of the semen parameters were observed between preobese and control group, except for increasing the number of a

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Author

NataliiaMykhailivna Kozopas; OlgaIhorivna Chornenka; MykolaZinoviyovych Vorobets; LubovYevhenivna Lapovets; HannaVasylivna Maksymyuk

Publisher

Medknow

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)