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Association between ambient particulate matter exposure and semen quality in fertile men.
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- Quantifying the exposure-response relationship between temperature exposure and semen quality.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Airborne chloride exposure and benign prostatic hyperplasia risk.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- The impact of prolonged air pollution exposure on urinary tract and male reproductive system infections: insights from a large-scale prospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exposure to ambient particulate matter and semen quality: the modifying role of socioeconomic status and lifestyle factors in chinese men.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Decrease or increase in sperm concentration? The data among fertile Chinese males in 40 years.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025Article
- Identifying critical windows of air pollution exposure and semen quality: A cross-sectional study in Chinese fertile men.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Potential effects of environmental toxicants on sperm quality and potential risk for fertility in humans.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Exposure to air pollution is associated with DNA methylation changes in sperm.Environmental epigenetics · 2024Article
- A comprehensive review on endocrine toxicity of gaseous components and particulate matter in smog.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Associations of Exposure to Air Pollution during the Male Programming Window and Mini-Puberty with Anogenital Distance and Penile Width at Birth and at 1 Year of Age in the Multicenter U.S. TIDES Cohort.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Association of living environmental and occupational factors with semen quality in chinese men: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Constituents and Human Semen Quality Decline: A Multicenter Study.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Will male semen quality improve with environmental quality?Asian journal of andrologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSeveral studies have suggested adverse effects of particulate matter (PM) exposure on male reproductive health; few have investigated the association between PM exposure and semen quality in a large population of fertile men.
methodsWe evaluated 14 parameters of semen quality in 1554 fertile men in Nanjing from 2014 to 2016. Individual exposure to particular matter ≤10 μm in diameter (PM
resultsHigher 90-days average PM
conclusionsExposure to PM
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