Effects of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain on Fertility Potential in Lean and Overweight Male Patients

Table 3

Sperm quality parameters in overweight with chronic pain (OP), overweight control (OC), lean with chronic pain (LP), and lean control (LC). Provided values are median (25–75 percentiles), and superscripted letters mark pairwise significant differences (). Multivariate two-way analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to compare differences in sperm quality parameters.

	OP	OC	LP	LC
Motility (WHO [31])
Concentration (m/ml)	37.4 (31.9–92.3)	63.9 (45.3–78.5)	16.2 (8.0–50.3)	49.8 (23.9–100.9)
Immotile (%)	22.3 (13.0–44.5)	28.9 (19.6–42.7)	40.9 (39–48.7)	29 (12.1–57.0)
Nonprogressive motile (%)	50.5 (31.3–62.6)	26.35 (23.7–32.8)	28 (23.9–34.075)	22.85 (16.9–25.5)
Progressively motile (%)	24.2 (23.3–25.0)	39.5 (26.1–57.7)^b	29.7 (22.8–33.4)^a	42.6 (22.7–66.7)^a,b
Hyperactivated sperm (%)	5.15 (2.0–10.4)	12.6 (5.9–17.6)	4.1 (1.8–4.6)	10.7 (4.7–24.1)
DNA fragmentation (%)	41.7 (30.3–65.3)	41.3 (28.1–66.7)	55.4 (39.2–72.0)	29 (16.5–76.1)
Normal morphology (%)	3.7 (3.1–6.5)	5 (2.7–13.8)	8 (7.0–9.9)	13.1 (7.4–20.6)