Association between air pollution and sperm quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 208, Issue , 2016, Pages 663-669

  Deng, Zibing ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Zhang, Meixia ^a   Lan, Lan ^a   Qiao, Zhijiao ^a   Cui, Yan ^a   An, Jinghuan ^a   Wang, Nan ^a   Fan, Zhiwei ^a   Zhao, Xing ^a   Li, Xiaosong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meta analysis; Sperm parameters; Sperm quality; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BODY FLUIDS; POLLUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION; CHRONIC EXPOSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; META ANALYSIS; RANDOM-EFFECT MODELS; SPERM PARAMETERS; SPERM QUALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPERM;

AIR POLLUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; POLLUTANT; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84949511226     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.10.044     Document Type: Article

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