Semen parameters in smokers and non-smokers fertile men

Introduction: World Health organization stated that, approximately one third of the world' population older than 15 years are smokers. Cigarette smoking affects reproductive health in both men and women with poorly understandable mechanisms. Some of the studies focused on the relation between cigarette smoking and the principal semen analysis' variables such as concentration, Morphology and Motility. In this study, we compared the semen parameters between smokers and non-smokers fertile men with time to pregnancy less than one year

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Materials and Methods: this case control study was done on proved fertile men in Assiut university hospital between March 2013 and September 2015. The subjects of the study were classified into 2 groups; smokers and non-smokers and their semen parameters were compared

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Results: 93 fertile men were included in the present study. 50 non-smokers and 43 smokers the mean age of subjects was not significantly different between the two groups. There were no significant differences among groups according to semen volume, sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility and vitality. However, normal forms were statistically higher in nonsmokers than in smokers

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Conclusion: according to our results, semen parameters [semen volume, sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility and vitality] were lower in smokers but without significant differences between groups. Normal forms were higher significantly in nonsmokers than in smoker's fertile men