Lifestyle and semen quality: Role of modifiable risk factors

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-51

  Jurewicz, Joanna ^a   Radwan, Michał ^b   Sobala, Wojciech ^a   Ligocka, Danuta ^a   Radwan, Paweł ^b   Bochenek, Michał ^c   Hanke, Wojciech ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b Gameta Hospital   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Lifestyle; Modifiable factors; Semen quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COFFEE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RED WINE; RISK FACTOR; SAUNA; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON NECK ABNORMALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN;

EID: 84892690812     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2013.840687     Document Type: Article

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