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Table 1 Descriptive analysis of male age, semen parameters, and sperm DNA fragmentation from infertile men

From: Sperm chromatin structure assay (SCSA®) and flow cytometry-assisted TUNEL assay provide a concordant assessment of sperm DNA fragmentation as a function of age in a large cohort of approximately 10,000 patients

Study parameters

N

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std. Deviation

Male age (year)

9735

19.00

71.00

37.5 ± 

6.24

Semen volume (ml)

10,000

0.30

10.90

3.98

1.78

Sperm concentration (106/ml)

10,000

0.10

494.55

60.18

44.3

Sperm count (106/ejaculate)

10,000

0.10

2410.10

231.75

194.56

Total sperm motility (%)

10,000

0.00

100.00

44.67

22.25

Progressive motility “Fast + Slow” (%)

10,000

0.00

85.8

25.9

15.62

Non-progressive motility (%)

10,000

0.00

83.60

18.78

12.41

Immotile sperm (%)

10,000

0.00

100.00

55.32

22.25

Abnormal sperm morphology (%)

9977

61.00

100.00

94.92

4.58

SCSA High DNA stainability index (%HDS)

7353

1.00

34.00

8.5

4.14

DNA fragmentation index (%SCSA)

9774

5.00

75.00

18.56

7.52

DNA fragmentation (%TUNEL)

9961

1.00

60.00

10.3

6.16