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. 2018 Mar 23;35(6):1083–1089. doi: 10.1007/s10815-018-1163-z

Table 4.

Comparisons of basal and post-washing sperm analyses and DNA fragmentation between cycles resulted with and without clinical pregnancy

Variable No pregnancy (n = 55) Clinical pregnancy (n = 10) p* value
Basal progressive sperm motility (%) 45.1 ± 1.9 39.6 ± 7.3 0.184
Basal sperm DNA fragmentation (%) 43.2 ± 2.8 49 ± 5.2 0.295
Basal total motile sperm count (106) 29.4 ± 4.5 34 ± 14.2 0.763
Post-swim-up progressive sperm motility (%) 67.6 ± 2.7 63.8 ± 5.2 0.387
Post-swim-up sperm DNA fragmentation (%) 28.9 ± 2.8 32 ± 4.8 0.317
Post-gradient progressive sperm motility (%) 63.7 ± 2.5 65.7 ± 6 0.964
Post-gradient sperm DNA fragmentation (%) 40.3 ± 2.9 46.5 ± 6.6 0.380
Basal normal sperm morphology (%) 0.83 ± 0.1 1.0 ± 0.4 0.813

Data were presented as mean ± standard error mean (SEM)

*Mann-Whitney U test