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Published on: October 22, 2020
Cigarette smoking and the risk of male infertility
A Hosseinzadeh Colagar1, G A Jorsaraee, E Tahmasbpour Marzony
1Department of Biology, Faculty of Basic Science, Mazandaran University, Code Post: 47416-1467 Babolsar, Iran.
Abstract:
In this research we investigated the effect of cigarette smoking on sperm parameters both before and after swim-up. Semen sample provided from fertile smoker (n = 25), fertile nonsmoker (n = 21), infertile smoker (n = 23) and infertile nonsmoker men (n = 32). Semen analysis was performed manually according to the World Health Organization (WHO) standards guidelines. Present research showed that sperm parameters quality in smoker men was approximately lower than nonsmoker men. As well as present research showed that cigarette smoking has dose dependent effect on sperm parameters, but this effect was not significant. Therefore, it appears that cigarette smoking is associated with reduced sperm quality and the risk of idiopathic male infertility in smoker men.
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