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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Andrology. 2017 Feb 10;5(2):354–361. doi: 10.1111/andr.12310

Table 2.

Male beverage intake and probability of implantation and clinical pregnancy

ALCOHOL CAFFEINE
Beverage intake quartile** Crude rate Age adjusted probability,%
(95% CI)
Multivariate adjusted* probability
(95% CI)
Crude rate Age adjusted probability,%
(95% CI)
Multivariate adjusted* probability
(95% CI)
Implantation
Q1 29/57 53.2(38.6–67.3) 45.6(27.6–64.8) 26/44 59.7(43.9–73.7) 66.1(46.5–81.3)
Q2 28/47 61.3(45.5–75.0) 59.1(40.1–75.8) 35/47 74.9(59.8–85.7) 76.2(58.8–87.7)
Q3 31/52 60.2(44.8–73.9) 65.1(46.9–79.8) 28/43 66.5(50.5–79.5) 69.1(50.0–83.4)
Q4 32/49 66.2(50.6–78.9) 76.3(56.3–88.9) 31/71 44.0(31.9–56.8) 42.3(28.0–58.0)
P-trend 0.25 0.05 0.04 0.02
Clinical Pregnancy
Q1 26/57 48.7(34.3–63.3) 42.6(25.3–62.0) 25/44 57.1(41.7–71.2) 62.5(43.3–78.5)
Q2 25/47 54.9(39.3–69.7) 49.1(31.7–66.8) 31/47 66.3(51.3–78.7) 68.4(50.9–81.9)
Q3 28/52 55.5(40.1–69.8) 59.1(41.4–74.7) 28/43 66.0(50.3–78.8) 68.0(49.3–82.2)
Q4 29/49 60.8(45.2–74.5) 70.9(50.2–85.4) 24/71 34.1(23.6–46.4)*** 32.7(20.4–47.9)***
P-trend 0.28 0.06 0.01 0.01
*

Adjusted for age, BMI, race, male caffeine or alcohol intake, smoking status, total calorie and dietary pattern, infertility diagnosis, and female caffeine intake, female alcohol intake, female age, female BMI

**

For alcohol, quartiles are: < 3g/day, 3–11.9g/day, 12–21.9g/day, and ≥ 22g/day. For caffeine, quartiles are: <99mg/day, 99–208.9mg/day, 209–271.9mg/day, and ≥ 272mg/day

***

P < 0.05 compared to Q1