作者
Elvira V Bräuner, Loa Nordkap, Lærke Priskorn, Åse Marie Hansen, Anne Kirstine Bang, Stine A Holmboe, Lone Schmidt, Tina K Jensen, Niels Jørgensen
发表日期
2020/4/1
期刊
Fertility and sterility
卷号
113
期号
4
页码范围
865-875
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Objective
To assess the association between psychological stress and male factor infertility as well as testicular function (semen quality, serum reproductive hormones) and erectile dysfunction.
Design
Cross-sectional study.
Setting
University Hospital-based research center.
Patients
Men with impaired semen quality were included from infertile couples, and men with naturally conceived pregnant partners were used as a reference population.
Interventions
Participants completed a questionnaire on health and lifestyle, including a 14-item questionnaire about self-rated psychological stress symptoms and stressful life event (SLEs), had a physical examination performed, delivered a semen sample and had a blood sample drawn.
Main outcomes
Differences in stress scores (calculated from self-reported stress symptoms) and SLEs between infertile and fertile men were assessed in crude and fully adjusted linear regression …
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