Is seminal quality worsening? A 20-year experience in Córdoba-Argentina.

MARTINI AC

JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS.

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS

Año: 2022 vol. 39 p. 1125 - 1125

1058-0468

urpose: To assess the possible variations in semen quality during the last 20 years in Córdoba, Argentina and to identify possible causal lifestyle or genitourinary factors.Methods: Retrospective study of 23130 patients attending an andrology laboratory. The 20-year period (2001-2020) was divided in four quinquenniums.Seminal parameters (sperm concentration, motility, morphology, viability and membrane functional integrity) were classified as normal or abnormal according to WHO and results were expressed as percentage of patients abnormal for each parameter per quinquennium. In addition, the percentage of patients per quinquennium exposed to the different risk factors (daily alcohol and/or tobacco consumption, occupational exposure to heat or toxics, history of parotitis or varicocele and high body mass index ?BMI-) was reported.Results: Patients included in our study did not show impairment in seminal quality over time. Beyond a transient decrease in normozoospermia in the second and