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Table 2 General characteristics among men in infertile couples with normal and abnormal sperm survival test

From: Impact of metabolic syndrome on the viability of human spermatozoa: a cross-sectional descriptive study in men from infertile couples

Characteristics

Total

(n = 195)

Sperm survival test

P-valuea

Abnormal SST (n = 113)

Normal SST (n = 82)

 

Age (years) (mean ± SD)

34.73 ± 5.51

35.30 ± 5.65

33.95 ± 5.25

0.09

Infertility type [n (%)]

 Primary

128 (65.6%)

79 (69.9%)

49 (59.8%)

0.15

 Secondary

67 (34.4%)

34 (30.1%)

33 (40.2%)

BMI (kg/m2) (mean ± SD)

22.93 ± 2.96

23.24 ± 3.27

22.50 ± 2.42

0.47

  < 23 [n (%)]

102 (52.3%)

54 (52.9%)

48 (47.1%)

0.15

  ≥ 23 [n (%)]

93 (47.7%)

59 (63.4%)

34 (36.6%)

WC (cm) (mean ± SD)

82.55 ± 8.60

83.54 ± 8.91

81.18 ± 8.01

0.59

  < 90 [n (%)]

149 (76.4%)

79 (69.9%)

70 (83.3%)

0.01

  ≥ 90 [n (%)]

46 (23.6%)

34 (30.1%)

12 (16.7%)

WHR (mean ± SD)

0.87 ± 0.06

0.87 ± 0.06

0.86 ± 0.06

0.26

  ≤ 0.9 [n (%)]

142 (72.8%)

77 (54.2%)

65 (45.8%)

0.09

  > 0.9 [n (%)]

53 (27.2%)

36 (67.9%)

17 (32.1%)

Blood pressure (mean ± SD)

 SBP (mmHg) [n (%)]

112.64 ± 7.87

112.61 ± 8.69

112.68 ± 6.63

0.95

 DBP (mmHg) [n (%)]

71.33 ± 5.53

71.32 ± 5.99

71.34 ± 4.84

0.98

Lipid profile (mean ± SD)

 Cholesterol (mmol/L)

4.77 ± 0.92

4.77 ± 0.90

4.76 ± 0.95

0.91

 Triglycerides (mmol/L)

2.21 ± 1.30

2.35 ± 1.31

2.02 ± 1.27

0.09

 LDL-C (mmol/L)

3.22 ± 0.87

3.24 ± 0.86

3.20 ± 0.89

0.73

 HDL-C (mmol/L)

1.22 ± 0.31

1.20 ± 0.28

1.26 ± 0.34

0.22

Fasting glucose (mmol/L) (mean ± SD)

5.47 ± 0.88

5.54 ± 1.02

5.37 ± 0.63

0.16

Alcohol consumption [n (%)]

 Yes

45 (23.1%)

28 (62.2%)

17 (37.8%)

0.51

 No

150 (76.9%)

85 (56.7%)

65 (43.3%)

Smoking [n (%)]

 Yes

34 (17.4%)

23 (67.6%)

11 (32.4%)

0.21

 No

161 (82.6%)

90 (55.9%)

71 (44.1%)

Fresh semen analysis (mean ± SD)

 pH

7.08 ± 0.26

7.06 ± 0.23

7.11 ± 0.29

0.22

 Sexual abstinence (days)

4.20 ± 1.31

4.21 ± 1.33

4.18 ± 1.29

0.88

 Semen volume (ml)

1.84 ± 0.95

1.71 ± 0.88

2.02 ± 1.01

0.01

 Sperm count (×106/ml)

33.80 ± 12.

32.91 ± 15.37

35.01 ± 13.35

0.32

 Sperm vitality (%)

81.44 ± 7.63

80.39 ± 8.88

82.89 ± 5.20

0.06

 Progressive motility (%)

33.26 ± 10.84

32.64 ± 11.98

34.12 ± 9.04

0.33

 Normal sperm morphology (%)

3.89 ± 2.22

3.76 ± 2.18

4.06 ± 2.27

0.28

  1. BMI body mass index; DPB diastolic blood pressure; HDL-C high density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C low density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP systolic blood pressure; SST sperm survival test; WC waist circumference; WHR waist-to-hip ratio
  2. a Student’s t-test, Chi square test were used to compare Gaussian data and the Mann-Whitney U-test was used to compare non-Gaussian data. Values were expressed as mean ± SD and number (percentage)