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. 2023 Jun 8;33:14. doi: 10.1186/s12610-023-00189-9

Table 5.

Semen Analysis Results of Infertility Cohort. Shows the Semen Analysis results of our cohort of 209 human male infertility subjects compared to multiple lifestyle variables. Logistics regression models were run for categorical input variables and linear regression models were run for continuous input variables

Outcome: Sperm Count (million sperm/mL)
Variable Value Estimate Standard error t-value p-value
Age age in years 2.58 0.82 3.15 *0.0019
Exposure to heat (yes/no) yes 9.87 11.54 0.85 0.3936
Outside/inside job inside 36.03 44.87 0.80 0.4229
Outside/inside job outside 38.91 45.75 0.85 0.3961
Exposure to radiation/chemicals (yes/no) yes 14.76 11.92 1.24 0.2170
Tobacco use (yes/no) yes -34.99 10.85 -3.23 *0.0015
Level of alcohol use heavy -29.50 15.36 -1.92 *0.042
Level of alcohol use moderate 0.93 11.73 0.08 0.9370
Level of alcohol use rare 14.51 11.46 1.27 0.2071
Outcome: Volume (mL)
Variable Value Estimate Standard error t-value p-value
Age age in years -0.04 0.02 -2.34 *0.0203
Exposure to heat (yes/no) yes -0.52 0.25 -2.05 *0.0418
Outside/inside job inside 1.53 0.99 1.56 0.1212
Outside/inside job outside 1.89 1.01 1.88 0.0610
Exposure to radiation/chemicals (yes/no) yes 0.28 0.26 1.06 0.2922
Tobacco use (yes/no) yes -0.07 0.24 -0.30 0.7645
Level of alcohol use heavy 0.27 0.34 0.80 0.4240
Level of alcohol use moderate 0.42 0.26 1.64 0.1032
Level of alcohol use rare 0.49 0.25 1.95 0.0529
Outcome: Motility (%)
Variable Value Estimate Standard error t-value p-value
Age age in years -0.15 0.17 -0.89 0.3724
Exposure to heat (yes/no) yes 0.38 2.40 0.16 0.8745
Outside/inside job inside 16.28 9.33 1.74 0.0827
Outside/inside job outside 20.74 9.52 2.18 *0.0305
Exposure to radiation/chemicals (yes/no) yes 1.76 2.48 0.71 0.4797
Tobacco use (yes/no) yes -9.47 2.26 -4.19 * < 0.0001
Level of alcohol use heavy 1.94 3.19 0.61 0.5451
Level of alcohol use moderate -0.47 2.44 -0.19 0.8476
Level of alcohol use rare 2.06 2.38 0.86 0.3893

*Denotes significance