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Harlev, A., Agarwal, A., Gunes, S. O., Shetty, A., & du Plessis, S. S. (2015). Smoking and Male Infertility: An Evidence-Based Review. The world journal of men's health, 33(3), 143-60. https://doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.2015.33.3.143
Harlev, Avi, et al. "Smoking and Male Infertility: An Evidence-Based Review." The world journal of men's health vol. 33,3 (2015): 143-60. doi: https://doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.2015.33.3.143
Harlev A, Agarwal A, Gunes SO, Shetty A, du Plessis SS. Smoking and Male Infertility: An Evidence-Based Review. World J Mens Health. 2015 Dec;33(3):143-60. doi: 10.5534/wjmh.2015.33.3.143. Epub 2015 Dec 23. PMID: 26770934; PMCID: PMC4709430.
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World J Mens Health. 2015 Dec;33(3):143-60. doi: 10.5534/wjmh.2015.33.3.143. Epub 2015 Dec 23.

Smoking and Male Infertility: An Evidence-Based Review.

The world journal of men's health

Avi Harlev, Ashok Agarwal, Sezgin Ozgur Gunes, Amit Shetty, Stefan Simon du Plessis

Affiliations

  1. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.; Fertility and In Vitro Fertilization Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
  2. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
  3. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.; Department of Medical Biology, Ondokuz Mayis University Faculty of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.
  4. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.; Division of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.

PMID: 26770934 PMCID: PMC4709430 DOI: 10.5534/wjmh.2015.33.3.143

Abstract

Many studies have reported that the contents of cigarette smoke negatively affect sperm parameters, seminal plasma, and various other fertility factors. Nevertheless, the actual effect of smoking on male fertility is not clear. The effect of smoking on semen parameters is based on the well-established biological finding that smoking increases the presence of reactive oxygen species, thereby resulting in oxidative stress (OS). OS has devastating effects on sperm parameters, such as viability and morphology, and impairs sperm function, hence reducing male fertility. However, not all studies have come to the same conclusions. This review sheds light upon the arguable association between smoking and male fertility and also assesses the impact of non-smoking routes of tobacco consumption on male infertility. It also highlights the evidence that links smoking with male infertility, including newly emerging genetic and epigenetic data, and discusses the clinical implications thereof.

Keywords: Erectile dysfunction; Infertility, male; Smoking; Spermatogenesis; Spermatozoa

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