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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Reprod Toxicol. 2019 Aug 21;90:82–87. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2019.08.014

Table 2:

Urinary BPA Concentration in relation to Semen Parameters

Men with normal semen parameter Men with abnormal semen parameter
Sperm Parameter n (%) GM BPA (95% CI) n (%) GM BPA (95% CI) p-value*
<30% normal heads 124 (50.8) 2.28 (2.03, 2.56) 120 (49.2) 2.75 (2.39, 3.17) 0.0567
<65% normal tails 199 (81.9) 2.39 (2.17, 2.63) 44 (18.1) 3.12 (2.43, 4.01) 0.0324
Concentration <15 million/mL 210 (86.1) 2.50 (2.27, 2.74) 34 (13.9) 2.54 (1.85, 3.49) 0.6896
Volume <1.5 mL 173 (70.9) 2.58 (2.33, 2.87) 71 (29.1) 2.31 (1.93, 2.77) 0.0878
Count <60 million 166 (68.0) 2.50 (2.24, 2.78) 78 (32.0) 2.51 (2.12, 2.98) 0.7936
>5% megaloheads 240 (98.4) 2.52 (2.30, 2.76) 4 (1.6) 1.76 (0.74, 4.19) 0.2888
>5% Microheads 233 (95.5) 2.51 (2.29, 3.76) 11 (4.5) 2.31 (1.62, 3.28) 0.7830
>35% tapered heads 159 (65.2) 2.48 (2.23, 2.77) 85 (34.8) 2.54 (2.15, 3.00) 0.7767
>5% bicephalic 240 (98.4) 2.49 (2.28, 3.73) 4 (1.6) 3.00 (0.41, 1.70) 0.6246
>10% amorphous heads 33 (13.5) 2.41 (1.81, 3.21) 211 (86.5) 2.52 (2.29, 2.77) 0.9979
*

Mann Whitney test between geometric means of BPA

GM: geometric mean