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ArticleToxics2025

Ambient Air Pollution and Semen Quality in China: A Nationwide Case-Control Study of 27,014 Males with Biomarker-Confirmed Semen Pathology.

Jianfeng Liu, Zhixiang Fang, Dongyue Chai, Zhipeng Zhu, Qunshan Shen, Xiaojin He

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Article in Toxics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jianfeng LiuState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430070, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6176-1338
Zhixiang FangState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430070, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1651-878X
Dongyue ChaiState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430070, China.
Zhipeng ZhuSchool of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200080, China.
Qunshan ShenHuman Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.
Xiaojin HeSchool of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200080, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5919-8478

Funding

Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 2019PT310002the University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province GXXT-2021-071Top Telent Program of the Education Department of Anhui Province gxbjZD202006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amidst China's rapid industrialization and deteriorating air quality, emerging evidence suggests a parallel decline in male reproductive health. However, large-scale assessments of pollution-semen quality associations remain scarce. This nationwide multicenter study investigated these relationships among 27,014 Chinese men using high-resolution satellite-derived exposure estimates (PM

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air pollutantsenvironmental exposuremulticenter studysemen quality

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PMID40278638
PMCPMC12031621

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