Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6316323 | Environmental Pollution | 2016 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Exposure to ambient air pollution has been clearly linked to adverse reproductive outcome and fecundation index, but its effects on male semen quality are still uncertain. In this study, we reviewed information from ten studies to get the qualitative evidence of the influence of the ambient air pollution on sperm quality and collected data from six of the ten studies to conduct meta-analysis. The original studies classified participants into different exposure levels and the highest and lowest expose levels were chosen as high expose and low expose groups, respectively. The random-effect model was used in the meta-analysis with the weight mean difference (WMD) as the measure indicator. The WMDs (95% confidence intervals, CIs) of sperm volume, sperm count, semen concentration, sperm progressive motility, total motility, and normal morphology were 0.09 (â0.04, 0.23), 0.46 (â4.47, 5.39), â8.21 (â20.38, 3.96), â7.76 (â16.26, 0.74), â7.61 (â16.97, 1.74) and â3.40 (â7.42, 0.62), respectively. In conclusion, although the differences are not statistically significant between the two groups, the overall trends and evidence from this review indicate the chronic exposure to ambient pollutants at high level may alter men sperm quality.
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Authors
Zibing Deng, Fei Chen, Meixia Zhang, Lan Lan, Zhijiao Qiao, Yan Cui, Jinghuan An, Nan Wang, Zhiwei Fan, Xing Zhao, Xiaosong Li,