The Associations between Infertility and Antioxidants, Proinflammatory Cytokines, and Chemokines

Table 1

Age, semen analysis in control and study groups; value—-test.

	Control		Oligospermia				Asthenospermia				Oligoasthenospermia
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Relative change	value	Mean	SD	Relative change	value	Mean	SD	Relative change	value
Age (years)	33	6	34	5	2%	0.432	34	6	3%	0.256	34	5	2%	0.403
Sperm volume (ml)	3.70	1.73	3.58	1.53	−3%	0.541	3.42	1.63	−8%	0.186	3.41	1.58	−8%	0.214
pH value	7.56	0.08	7.57	0.09	0%	0.646	7.57	0.08	0%	0.783	7.56	0.09	0%	0.915
Sperm cells count in 1 ml (mln/ml)	79.5	60.1	4.39	4.51	−94%	<0.001	25.4	42.8	−68%	<0.001	3.81	4.68	−95%	<0.001
Total sperm cells count (mln)	269	189	15.5	19.9	−94%	<0.001	73.9	122	−73%	<0.001	12.5	19.8	−95%	<0.001
Total motility after 1 hour (% motile)	58.1	9.48	32.4	20.6	−44%	<0.001	22.9	14.0	−61%	<0.001	18.3	14.1	−69%	<0.001
Rapid progressive motility (a) after 1 hour (%)	26.0	9.96	9.16	7.82	−65%	<0.001	6.75	5.97	−74%	<0.001	5.14	5.55	−80%	<0.001
Slow progressive motility (b) after 1 hour (%)	18.0	6.81	9.53	8.11	−47%	<0.001	6.76	7.13	−62%	<0.001	4.77	4.98	−73%	<0.001
Progressive motility (a + b) after 1 hour (%)	44.0	9.74	18.7	14.22	−57%	<0.001	13.5	10.66	−69%	<0.001	9.9	9.41	−77%	<0.001

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