supported by a grant from the Italian Ministry of Education and Research(MIUR-PRIN 2017S9KTNE_003);the Faculty of Medicine in Sapienza University of Rome.
After a huge decline in sperm concentration between 1938 and 1991 was reported,many researchers investigated the possibility of a worsening of human sperm quality.Despite massive efforts,published evidence is still co...
Smoking is a well-known risk factor of reproductive health. However, the effect of paternal smoking on fertility has been less extensively examined. We conducted a cross-sectional study in a mountainous area of South-...
Estimating the risk of competing mortality is of importance in men with early prostate cancer to choose the most appropriate way of management and to avoid over- or under-treatment. In this study, we investigated the ...
moking is associated with several major benign and malignant diseases, representing one of the most important modifiable risk factors. Among urothelial neoplasms, smoking is pivotal in tumor carcinogenesis, but its r...
The main cause of erectile dysfunction (ED) is organic in nature, with vascular etiologies being the most common risk factors. Although there have been sufficient data on the relationship between ED and several well...
Aim: To examine the inter-relationships among age, lifestyle factors, anthropometric parameters, percent body fat and steroid hormone parameters in 531 healthy Singaporean Chinese men aged between 29 and 72 years old...
Aim:To assess the role of several genetic factors in combination with an environmental factor as modulators of prostate cancer risk.We focus on allele variants of low-penetrance genes associated with cell control,the ...
Aim: To assess the role of several genetic factors in combination with an environmental factor as modulators of prostate cancer risk. We focus on allele variants of low-penetrance genes associated with cell control, ...
Aim: To evaluate the association between selected potential socio-demographic and behavioral risk factors and infertility in Nigerian men. Methods: There were two groups in this study. One group consisted of 150 men...
Aim: To analyse the possible effect of seasonal variation on semen parameters. Methods: The participants consisted of 1688 men attending the andrology laboratory between 1991 and 1997 for reduced fertility in the coup...