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Is there a relationship between cell phone use and semen quality?

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Fejes I, Za Vaczki Z, Szollosi J, Kolosza R S, Daru J, Kova Cs L, PaL A · 2005

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Longer cell phone possession and higher daily transmission time correlated with fewer rapid progressive motile sperm and more slow progressive motile sperm, and high transmitters had a lower rapid progressive motile sperm proportion (40.6% vs 48.7%).

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Researchers surveyed 371 men at a university clinic about their cell phone use habits and analyzed semen using conventional methods. Duration of possession and daily transmission time correlated negatively with rapid progressive motile sperm (r = -0.12 and r = -0.19) and positively with slow progressive motile sperm (r = 0.12 and r = 0.28). Men in the high transmitter group had a lower proportion of rapid progressive motile sperm than those in the low transmitter group (40.6% vs 48.7%).

Why This Matters

The study aimed to determine whether regular cell phone use relates to human semen attributes. The authors concluded that prolonged cell phone use may negatively affect sperm motility characteristics.

Study Details

This study was conducted to determine a possible relationship between regular cell phone use and different human semen attributes.

The history-taking of men in our university clinic was supplemented with questions concerning cell p...

The duration of possession and the daily transmission time correlated negatively with the proportion...

The prolonged use of cell phones may have negative effects on the sperm motility characteristics.

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Fejes I, Za Vaczki Z, Szollosi J, Kolosza R S, Daru J, Kova Cs L, PaL A (2005). Is there a relationship between cell phone use and semen quality? Arch Androl. 51(5):385-393, 2005.
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@article{i_2005_is_there_a_relationship_2077,
  author = {Fejes I and Za Vaczki Z and Szollosi J and Kolosza R S and Daru J and Kova Cs L and PaL A},
  title = {Is there a relationship between cell phone use and semen quality?},
  year = {2005},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16087567/},
}
PubMed: 16087567

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Researchers surveyed 371 men at a university clinic about their cell phone use habits and analyzed semen using conventional methods.
Longer phone possession and higher daily transmission time correlated with lower rapid progressive motile sperm and higher slow progressive motile sperm proportions.
The high transmitter group had a lower proportion of rapid progressive motile sperm (40.6%) compared to the low transmitter group (48.7%).
The authors suggested that prolonged cell phone use may have negative effects on sperm motility characteristics.
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software.