Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.

The worldwide declining trend in male fertility has been a steady concern since the past few decades. Male infertility reportedly accounts for half of the overall infertility cases in the world. Despite the evidences of reduced fertility rates in Malaysia in the recent years, there is lack of interv...

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Main Authors: Muhamad, Suriyani, Sengupta, Pallav, Ramli, Roszaman, Nasir, Aslina
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Language:English
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spelling iium-737712020-02-24T08:18:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/ Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic. Muhamad, Suriyani Sengupta, Pallav Ramli, Roszaman Nasir, Aslina RG Gynecology and obstetrics The worldwide declining trend in male fertility has been a steady concern since the past few decades. Male infertility reportedly accounts for half of the overall infertility cases in the world. Despite the evidences of reduced fertility rates in Malaysia in the recent years, there is lack of interventions regarding the reproductive parameters in Malaysian men. Complexity in determining the underlying causatives in most of the male subfertility and infertility cases limits the scope of management. The sociodemographic impacts upon overall health as well as on reproductive health of men are undeniable. The present study has analysed the data collected from patients' records in the Fertility Clinic, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), from the January 2009 until December 2018. A total of 300 male patients were included in the study and were categorised according to their seminal fluid analysis (SFA) records. The sociodemographic characteristics for each subject were analysed. The results presented significant correlations among essential sociodemographic factors, such as educational attainment, marital duration as well as the age of wife, with the levels of semen abnormalities in the subjects. The study thereby unleashes scope for further investigations focusing upon the demographic factors for better insights to ameliorate male reproductive health in the Malaysian population. Wiley Online Library 2019-07-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/1/AND_13383_Rev_EV-2019.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/7/76734_S-quinolin-2-yl-methyldithiocarbazate-based%20magnetic%20adsorbent%20for%20magnetic%20solid-phase%20extraction%20of%20heavy%20metals%20from%20water%20samples_Scopus.pdf Muhamad, Suriyani and Sengupta, Pallav and Ramli, Roszaman and Nasir, Aslina (2019) Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic. Andrologia. pp. 1-6. (In Press) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/and.13383 https://doi.org/10.1111/and.13383
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topic RG Gynecology and obstetrics
spellingShingle RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Muhamad, Suriyani
Sengupta, Pallav
Ramli, Roszaman
Nasir, Aslina
Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
description The worldwide declining trend in male fertility has been a steady concern since the past few decades. Male infertility reportedly accounts for half of the overall infertility cases in the world. Despite the evidences of reduced fertility rates in Malaysia in the recent years, there is lack of interventions regarding the reproductive parameters in Malaysian men. Complexity in determining the underlying causatives in most of the male subfertility and infertility cases limits the scope of management. The sociodemographic impacts upon overall health as well as on reproductive health of men are undeniable. The present study has analysed the data collected from patients' records in the Fertility Clinic, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), from the January 2009 until December 2018. A total of 300 male patients were included in the study and were categorised according to their seminal fluid analysis (SFA) records. The sociodemographic characteristics for each subject were analysed. The results presented significant correlations among essential sociodemographic factors, such as educational attainment, marital duration as well as the age of wife, with the levels of semen abnormalities in the subjects. The study thereby unleashes scope for further investigations focusing upon the demographic factors for better insights to ameliorate male reproductive health in the Malaysian population.
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author Muhamad, Suriyani
Sengupta, Pallav
Ramli, Roszaman
Nasir, Aslina
author_facet Muhamad, Suriyani
Sengupta, Pallav
Ramli, Roszaman
Nasir, Aslina
author_sort Muhamad, Suriyani
title Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
title_short Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
title_full Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
title_fullStr Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
title_full_unstemmed Sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among Malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
title_sort sociodemographic factors associated with semen quality among malaysian men attending fertility clinic.
publisher Wiley Online Library
publishDate 2019
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/1/AND_13383_Rev_EV-2019.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/73771/7/76734_S-quinolin-2-yl-methyldithiocarbazate-based%20magnetic%20adsorbent%20for%20magnetic%20solid-phase%20extraction%20of%20heavy%20metals%20from%20water%20samples_Scopus.pdf
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