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

Table 2

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
Phosphates concentration (mg/dl)	97.4	67.8	66.7	33.9	0.033	−31%
Magnesium concentration (mg/dl)	6.15	3.37	5.72	4.16	0.272	−7%
Calcium concentration (mg/dl)	30.2	10.25	29.4	11.5	0.605	−3%
Iron concentration (μg/dl)	4.74	3.68	3.55	3.60	0.064	−25%
Zinc concentration (mg/l)	123	54.8	134	59.1	0.650	8%
Copper concentration (μg/dl)	34.6	46.3	36.6	45.1	0.351	6%
Selenium concentration (μg/l)	26.0	8.89	28.8	16.67	0.849	10%
Lead concentration in seminal plasma (μg/dl)	0.99	0.49	1.22	0.57	0.116	23%

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