Table 1.
Confounding parameters comparison, including age, BMI, smoking habit, alcohol intake, and abstinence period, between patients with varicocele and men without the pathology.
| Varicocele | Logistic regression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n=391) | No (n=2008) | Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval | p | |
| Age (years) | 37.7±6.3 | 37.8±6.6 | 1.00 | 0.98-1.01 | 0.97 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 28.3±4.4 | 28.1±19.8 | 0.99 | 0.95-1.02 | 0.35 |
| Smoking habit (%) | 10.5 | 11.9 | 0.86 | 0.61-1.23 | 0.41 |
| Alcohol intake (%) | 66.2 | 67.0 | 0.97 | 0.77-1.22 | 0.77 |
| Abstinence period (days) | 3.6±9.1 | 3.6±2.7 | 1.00 | 0.98-1.02 | 0.84 |