The Role of Oxidative Stress, Selected Metals, and Parameters of the Immune System in Male Fertility

Table 1

Semen parameters in the study population (group ME: mediocre semen morphology and group EX: excellent semen morphology). value—Student’s t-test.

	ME group		EX group		value	Relative change
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	33.9	6.02	32.4	5.64	0.492	−4%
Volume (ml)	3.44	1.44	4.04	1.97	0.038	17%
pH	7.58	0.08	7.55	0.06	0.080	—
Sperm cell count in 1 ml (mln/ml)	73.0	66.6	84.8	50.4	0.011	16%
Total sperm cell count (mln)	229	198	312	173	0.001	36%
Motile sperm cells after 1 hour (%)	54.1	7.80	62.3	9.39	<0.001	15%
Progressively motile sperm cells after 1 hour (%)	22.9	9.1	29.7	9.55	<0.001	30%
Motile spermatozoa after 24 hours (%)	14.7	13.1	23.3	17.1	0.005	58%
Progressively motile spermatozoa after 24 hours (%)	4.60	5.85	8.38	9.20	0.014	82%
Normal morphology (%)	49.4	8.11	54.0	7.22	0.005	9%

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