The Effect of Seasonal, Age ,Smoking and Occupational exposure status on semen parameters in Iraqi Subjects

Abstract

The present descriptive study of 60 male subjects involved in this study their age ranged between 22-48 years old through the period between June 2008 till June 2009. Semen Samples were collected from the subjects in Institute of Embryo Researches & Infertility Treatment-AL-Nahrain University –Baghdad in different seasons of the year depending on their attendance to the institute, in addition to other factors involved in this study as age ,smoking status and occupational exposure.Except of the mentioned above all the factors that might be involved in the variation of the seminal fluid were excluded from this study.The study showed that the seasonal variations have an impact on the male semen parameters, the smoking & occupational exposure status have some impacts on the male semen parameters, while it did not find any relationship between age and semen parameters .