Cigarette Smoking and Semen Quality: A New Meta-analysis Examining the Effect of the 2010 World Health Organization Laboratory Methods for the Examination of Human Semen

European Urology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 635-645

  Sharma, Reecha ^a   Harlev, Avi ^b,c   Agarwal, Ashok ^c   Esteves, Sandro C ^d  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Androfert   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fertility; Male infertility; Semen analysis; Semen quality; Smoking; Sperm count; Sperm morphology; Sperm motility; Spermatozoa; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84963944059     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.04.010     Document Type: Review

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