Decline in semen quality among 30,636 young Chinese men from 2001 to 2015

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 83-88.e2

  Huang, Chuan ^a   Li, Baishun ^b   Xu, Kongrong ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Hu, Jing ^b   Yang, Yang ^b   Nie, HongChuan ^b   Fan, Liqing ^a,b   Zhu, Wenbing ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Reproductive and Genetic Hospital of Citic Xiangya   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese young men; semen parameters; semen quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHINESE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM DONOR; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CELL SHAPE; CHINA; DONOR; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM BANK; SPERMATOZOON; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CELL SHAPE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM BANKS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85002708050     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.09.035     Document Type: Article

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