Lifestyle causes of male infertility. Arab Journal of Urology, 16 (1). ISSN 2090-5998 (2018)
Abstract
Objective: To examine the potential effects of lifestyle factors on malereproductive health. Evidence of a global decline in human sperm quality over recentdecades has been accumulating. Environmental, occupational, and modifiable life-style factors may contribute to this decline. This review focuses on key lifestyle fac-tors that are associated with male infertility such as smoking cigarettes, alcoholintake, use of illicit drugs, obesity, psychological stress, advanced paternal age, diet-ary practices, and coffee consumption. Other factors such as testicular heat stress,intense cycling training, lack of sleep and exposure to electromagnetic radiationfrom mobile phone use are briefly discussed.Materials and method: A comprehensive literature search was performed to iden-tify and synthesise all relevant information, mainly from within the last decade, onthe major lifestyle factors associated with male infertility and semen quality. Data-base searches were limited to reports published in English only. A manual search ofbibliographies of the reports retrieved was conducted to identify additional relevantarticles.Results: In all, 1012 articles were identified from the database search and afterreviewing the titles and abstract of the reports, 104 articles met the inclusion criteria.Of these, 30 reports were excluded as the full-text could not be retrieved and theabstract did not have relevant data. The remaining 74 reports were reviewed for dataon association between a particular lifestyle factor and male infertility and wereincluded in the present review.Conclusion: The major lifestyle factors discussed in the present review areamongst the multiple potential risk factors that could impair male fertility. However
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Male Infertility, Lifestyle, Risk Factors, Semen Quality, Sperm DNA Fragmen-tation |
| Taxonomy: | By Niche > Genome > Genomes By Niche > Genome > Human Genome |
| Local Content Hub: | Niche > Genome |
| Depositing User: | Hazrul Amir Tomyang (Puncak Alam) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2024 01:23 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 01:23 |
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