Correlations between Different Heavy Metals in Diverse Body Fluids: Studies of Human Semen Quality

Table 4

Spearman’s correlation coefficients between metal concentrations in seminal and blood plasma, and whole blood.

		Blood plasma		Whole blood
		𝑅	𝑃 value	𝑅	𝑃 value
Lead	Blood plasma			0.57	0.67
	Seminal plasma	0.13	0.32	−0.08	0.55
Cadmium	Blood plasma			0.14	0.30
	Seminal plasma	0.12	0.36	−0.50	0.72
Mercury	Blood plasma			0.17	0.19
	Seminal plasma	−0.13	0.34	−0.34	0.80