Association of vitamin D status with semen quality and reproductive hormones in Iranian subfertile men

Andrology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 113-118

  Abbasihormozi, Sh ^a   Kouhkan, A ^a   Alizadeh, A R ^b   Shahverdi, A H ^a   Nasr Esfahani, M H ^a   Sadighi Gilani, M A ^a,c   Salman Yazdi, R ^a   Matinibehzad, A ^a   Zolfaghari, Z ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

hormone profile; male infertility; semen quality; vitamin D status

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; CALCIFEDIOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INFORMED CONSENT; IRANIAN PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ASTHENOSPERMIA; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; IRAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; CALCIFEDIOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; IRAN; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84999837856     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/andr.12280     Document Type: Article

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