. 2016 Dec 26;2016:4302754. doi: 10.1155/2016/4302754

Table 1.

Comparison of different parameters in the investigated groups (mean ± SD, range).

	Fertile men	Fertile men with Vx	OAT men	OAT men with Vx
n	52	43	62	63
Age (years)	30.0 ± 2.9 (25–37)	30.3 ± 3.8 (25–39)	29.3 ± 3.3 (23–36)	29.0 ± 3.6 (24–39)
Sperm count (10⁶/ml)	70.2 ± 0.6 (21–97)	68.1 ± 7.5 (31–86)	7.9 ± 3.1 (1.6–12)^a,b	7.4 ± 2.8(2–12)^a,b
Sperm motility (%)	60.4 ± 6.7 (45–71)	58.8 ± 5.2 (48–65)	21.5 ± 7.9 (9–36)^a,b	14.6 ± 6.6 (5–25)^a,b
Sperm normal morphology (%)	6.8 ± 1.0 (6–9)	5.93 ± 0.82 (4–7)	2.7 ± 1 (0–4)^a,b	2.8 ± 0.5 (1–3)^a,b
Seminal BAX	1.24 ± 0.4 (0.1–2.04)	7.0 ± 1.5 (4–9.6)^a	9.7 ± 1 (7.7–12)^a,b	13.6 ± 2.6 (10.1–17.6)^a,b,c
Seminal BCl2	1.3 ± 0.4 (0.44–1.9)	0.82 ± 0.5 (0.23–1.78)^a	0.45 ± 0.1 (0.11–0.62)^a,b	0.23 ± 0.1 (0.12–0.46)^a,b,c
Seminal GPx (U/ml)	57.5 ± 4.5 (39–68.7)	33.5 ± 2.5 (28.9–39.1)^a	27.9 ± 3.8 (15.4–37.4)^a,b	19.9 ± 3.9 (14.2–28.2)^a,b,c
Seminal MDA (nmol/ml)	1.2 ± 0.4 (0.09–2.03)	6.2 ± 1.6 (2.7–9.12)^a	7.6 ± 1.6 (5–11)^a,b	10.6 ± 1.9 (6.8–14.2)^a,b,c
Seminal miRNA-122	54.3 ± 4.2 (40.7–68.4)	33.6 ± 4.5 (25.8–43.7)^a	26.8 ± 5.1 (16.9–42)^a,b	20.0 ± 4.7 (10.2–33.8)^a,b,c
Seminal miRNA-181-a	23.1 ± 3.0 (16.4–30.6)	14.9 ± 2.5 (9.8–20.3)^a	13.5 ± 3.2 (7.1–25.8)^a,b	7.4 ± 1.9 (4.03–10.8)^a,b,c
Seminal miRNA -34c-5	10.9 ± 1.8 (7.1–14.8)	8.3 ± 1.6 (5.04–11.6)^a	6.7 ± 2.0(3.2–10.8)^a,b	2.8 ± 1 (1.7–4.8)^a,b,c

^aStatistical difference compared with fertile men (controls).

^bStatistical difference compared with fertile men with Vx.

^cStatistical difference compared with OAT without Vx.