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Introduction: World Health organization stated that, approximately one third of the world' population older than 15 years are smokers. Cigarette smoking affects reproductive health in both men and women with poorly understandable mechanisms. Some of the studies focused on the relation between cigarette smoking and the principal semen analysis' variables such as concentration, Morphology and Motility. In this study, we compared the semen parameters between smokers and non-smokers fertile men with time to pregnancy less than one year
Materials and Methods: this case control study was done on proved fertile men in Assiut university hospital between March 2013 and September 2015. The subjects of the study were classified into 2 groups; smokers and non-smokers and their semen parameters were compared
Results: 93 fertile men were included in the present study. 50 non-smokers and 43 smokers the mean age of subjects was not significantly different between the two groups. There were no significant differences among groups according to semen volume, sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility and vitality. However, normal forms were statistically higher in nonsmokers than in smokers
Conclusion: according to our results, semen parameters [semen volume, sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility and vitality] were lower in smokers but without significant differences between groups. Normal forms were higher significantly in nonsmokers than in smoker's fertile men
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Introduction: the WHO periodically releases manuals for the laboratory examination and processing of human semen. The WHO [2010] semen analysis criteria are likely to have a significant effect on the management of male infertility as the adoption of the new WHO reference values will likely lead to more men being classified as fertile
Aim of the work: to study and analyze the different semen parameters of fertile men in Assiut and comparing this with both WHO manuals 1999 and 20 10 parameters
Materials and Methods: this case control study was done on proved fertile men with time to pregnancy less than 1 year in assiut university hospital between March 20 13 and September 20 15
Results: 93 fertile men were included in the present study. The lower fifth centile for semen parameters were as follow, semen volume: 1.7, sperm concentration: 20 mill/ml, total sperm count: 45 mill/ejaculate, progressive motility: 42%, vitality: 70%, normal forms: 5%
Conclusion: according to our results, semen parameters in Assiut governorate is close to WH0, 2010 parameters and our results may also serve as reference values for future studies of fertile men from the general population in Egypt