title: Is there any relation between anthropometric indices and decrease in seminal parameters?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the influence of anthropometric indices on seminal parameters.
  
  
  METHODS
  Men who underwent treatment for conjugal infertility during the period of October, 2011, to March, 2012, were randomly selected. Patients with any prior diseases related to sperm alterations were excluded. Patients were submitted to an anthropometric evaluation to obtain body mass index, and the seminal analysis was made through a spermogram. Two anthropometric methods of classification were used: body mass index (normal and altered) and abdominal circumference (<94 cm and >94 cm). Data were analyzed by statistical tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The group with the altered body mass index presented lower volumes of ejaculated volume and a larger percentage of patients with abdominal circumference <94 cm presented with progressive forms of spermatozoa below reference values. However, in the statistical tests, there was no significant difference.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  No significant difference was found in the sperm quality relative to the body mass index or abdominal circumference.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Christofolini
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raphael Augusto Saab de Almeida
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Barros
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Milton
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghirelli-Filho
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Denise Maria
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Christofolini
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Bianca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bianco
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Caio Parente
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Barbosa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D012016:Reference Values; D012307:Risk Factors; D055101:Semen Analysis; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D055105:Waist Circumference / Q000502:physiology*
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