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

Table 5

Spermean’s correlation coefficients between seminal plasma, blood plasma, and whole blood, with metal concentrations.

		Cadmium		Mercury
		𝑅	𝑃 value	𝑅	𝑃 value
Seminal plasma	Lead	0.740	0.001	0.760	0.001
	Cadmium			0.870	0.001
Blood plasma	Lead	0.550	0.001	0.750	0.001
	Cadmium			0.700	0.001
Whole blood	Lead	0.850	0.001	0.950	0.001
	Cadmium			0.792	0.001