study of serum testosterone levels among infertile Pakistani men

ABSTRACT

Present study was conducted to study the involvement of serum testosterone in causing infertility in male partners of the infertile couples advised assessment of fertility status at the Reproductive Physiology/Health department of the National Institute of Health. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance [ANOVA], Turkey, multiple comparison tests and Student's 't' -test. The 82 subjects were divided into 3 groups on the basis of their endocrine status, 73% had normal [1.5-6.6 ng/ml], 17% had low and 10%, had high testosterone [ng/ml] concentrations, which were 3.2 +/- 0.14, 0.67 +/- 0.11 and 7.6 +/- 0.27, respectively, and the over all ANOVA was found to be significant [p<0.001] for mean serum testosterone concentrations. However, no significant difference [p>0.05] was observed among the groups with respect to age. It can be concluded that endocrine screening of men with testosterone may detect the vast majority of clinically significant endocrinopathies