| Titre : | Is prenatal exposure to tobacco smoking a cause of poor semen quality ? A follow-up study. (2007) |
| Auteurs : | Cecilia-Host RAMLAU-HANSEN ; Jens-Peter BONDE ; OLSEN (Jorn) : DNK. Danish Epidemiology Science Centre. Aarhus University. Aarhus. ; Lone STORGAARD ; Ane-Marie THULSTRUP ; Gunnar TOFT |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 165, n° 12, 2007) |
| Pagination : | 1372-1379 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Tabagisme ; Exposition ; Sperme ; Qualité ; Homme ; Tabac ; Spermatozoïde ; Epidémiologie |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS vq4R0x28. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. A few studies indicate that exposure to maternal smoking during fetal life decreases semen quality in adult life, but the results are inconsistent and retrospectively collected smoking data were used in most studies. From a Danish pregnancy cohort established in 1984-1987,347 of 5,109 sons were selected according to their exposure to tobacco smoke in fetal life. From February 2005 to January 2006, a semen sample from the 347 men was analyzed for conventional semen characteristics according to standardized criteria by using a mobile laboratory. The authors found an inverse association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and total sperm count (p=0.002). Men exposed to more than 19 cigarettes daily during pregnancy had approximately 19% lower semen volume (p=0.04), 38% lower total sperm count (p=0.11), and 17% lower sperm concentration (p=0.47) compared with unexposed men. The odds ratio for oligospermia was 2.16 (95% confidence interval : 0.68,6.87) among exposed men compared with the unexposed. No associations were found for sperm motility or morphology. These results indicate that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke may have an adverse effect on semen quality and, if these associations are causal, they could explain some of the reported differences between populations and secular changes in semen quality. |
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