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. 2017 Apr-Jun;13(2):180–187. doi: 10.4183/aeb.2017.180

Table 1.

Description of demographic and clinical characteristics of study subjects. Values are expressed as means ± standard errors of the mean (SEM)

    Idiopathic  
  Control     Secondary
    Low D Normal D  
Sample size n= 30 n= 45 n= 22 n= 20
Age (years) 26.93 ± 1.277 31.93 ± 0.7838 28.75 ± 1.405
Income (<300, 300-600, 600-1000, >1000) (27%, 53%, 13%, 7%) (16%, 73%, 7%, 4%) (32%, 50%, 9%, 9%) (25%, 55%, 5%, 15%)
Smoking (never smoked, smoker, ex-smoker) (53%, 40%, 7%) (38%, 51%, 11%) (41%, 45%, 14%) (50%, 50%, 0%)
Baseline vitamin D level (ng/mL) 21.27 ± 1.729 12.56 ± 0.7800 23.55 ± 1.119 25.91 ± 1.415
Vitamin D level after treatment (ng/mL) - 38.45 ± 1.464 - -
Baseline sperm concentration (million/mL) 61.77 ± 7.538 20.94 ± 4.270 15.58 ± 2.623 61.05 ± 8.103
Sperm concentration after treatment (million/mL) - 25.15 ± 4.892 - -
Baseline progressive motility (%) 48.37 ± 2.330 17.80 ± 1.936 15.43 ± 2.644 45.35 ± 3.089
Progressive motility after treatment (%) - 27.94 ± 3.533 - -
Baseline total motility (%) 53.50 ± 2.350 25.40 ± 2.153 21.74 ± 2.874 52.85 ± 2.924
Total motility after treatment (%) - 35.76 ± 3.611 - -
Baseline Morphology (%) 14.63 ± 1.031 6.556 ± 0.6494 7.091 ± 1.374 20.45 ± 2.083
Morphology after treatment (%) - 8.176 ± 0.9417 - -