The sixth edition of the WHO manual for human semen analysis: a critical review and SWOT analysis

F Boitrelle, R Shah, R Saleh, R Henkel, H Kandil… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Semen analysis is the cornerstone of male fertility evaluation with WHO guidelines providing
the basis for procedural standardization and reference values worldwide. The first WHO …

Fertility and infertility: Definition and epidemiology

M Vander Borght, C Wyns - Clinical biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Infertility is a disease characterized by the failure to establish a clinical pregnancy after 12
months of regular and unprotected sexual intercourse. It is estimated to affect between 8 and …

[HTML][HTML] Global, regional, and national prevalence and disability-adjusted life-years for infertility in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: results from a global …

H Sun, TT Gong, YT Jiang, S Zhang, YH Zhao… - Aging (Albany …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To provide comprehensive estimates of the global, regional, and national burden of infertility
from 1990 to 2017, using findings from a 2017 study on the global burden of disease (GBD) …

Oxidative stress and male infertility: current knowledge of pathophysiology and role of antioxidant therapy in disease management

E Barati, H Nikzad, M Karimian - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Infertility is a global health problem involving about 15% of couples. Approximately half of
the infertility cases are related to male factors. The oxidative stress, which refers to an …

Phthalate-induced testosterone/androgen receptor pathway disorder on spermatogenesis and antagonism of lycopene

Y Zhao, XN Li, H Zhang, JG Cui, JX Wang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Male infertility is an attracting growing concern owing to decline in sperm quality of men
worldwide. Phthalates, in particular to di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) or its main …

Some of the factors involved in male infertility: a prospective review

E Babakhanzadeh, M Nazari… - … journal of general …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Infertility is defined as the inability of couples to have a baby after one year of regular
unprotected intercourse, affecting 10 to 15% of couples. According to the latest WHO …

Sperm DNA fragmentation testing: Summary evidence and clinical practice recommendations

SC Esteves, A Zini, RM Coward, DP Evenson… - Andrologia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We herein summarise the evidence concerning the impact of sperm DNA fragmentation in
various clinical infertility scenarios and the advances on sperm DNA fragmentation tests …

[HTML][HTML] Phthalate exposure and male reproductive outcomes: a systematic review of the human epidemiological evidence

EG Radke, JM Braun, JD Meeker, GS Cooper - Environment international, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective We performed a systematic review of the epidemiology literature to identify the
male reproductive effects associated with phthalate exposure. Data sources and study …

The diagnosis of male infertility: an analysis of the evidence to support the development of global WHO guidance—challenges and future research opportunities

CLR Barratt, L Björndahl, CJ De Jonge… - Human reproduction …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Herein, we describe the consensus guideline methodology, summarize the
evidence-based recommendations we provided to the World Health Organization (WHO) for …

[HTML][HTML] Male oxidative stress infertility (MOSI): proposed terminology and clinical practice guidelines for management of idiopathic male infertility

A Agarwal, N Parekh, MKP Selvam… - The world journal of …, 2019 - synapse.koreamed.org
Despite advances in the field of male reproductive health, idiopathic male infertility, in which
a man has altered semen characteristics without an identifiable cause and there is no …