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Semen quality of smoking and non-smoking men in infertile couples in a Turkish population.

Ozgur K, Isikoglu M, Seleker M, Donmez L

Antalya IVF Center, Antalya, Turkey.

OBJECTIVE: This retrospective study was designed to reveal the effect of smoking on semen parameters in an infertile Turkish population. PATIENTS: Two hundred and ninety-six infertile males were triaged as nonsmokers, light smokers and heavy smokers. Semen volume; sperm density, motility and morphology were the main outcome measures. RESULTS: Rapidly progressing sperm ratio of the heavy smokers group was greater than that of the light smokers group (p<0.05). Morphologic evaluation results revealed better results for the nonsmokers than the heavy smokers in terms of tail anomalies and percent of coiled tails (p<0.05) CONCLUSIONS: In infertile Turkish men, heavy smoking was found to have detrimental effects on tail of the spermatozoon. Interestingly, heavy smokers have a higher percent of rapidly progressive sperm with respect to light smokers. Prospective studies will help determining the definite effect of smoking on semen quality.

Published 7 March 2005 in Arch Gynecol Obstet, 271(2): 109-12.
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