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Table of results (45 men): Before After Semen Volume (ml) 2.2 2.7 Concentration (m/ml) 26 3
by jgrahamc 5y ago
Table of results (45 men):
Before After
Semen Volume (ml) 2.2 2.7
Concentration (m/ml) 26 30
Motility (%) 58 65
TMSC (m) 36 44
In the 2010 WHO data (https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/infertility/cooper_et_al_hru.pdf https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/infertility/co...)
Percentile ml
2.5 1.2
5 1.5
10 2
25 2.7
50 3.7
75 4.8
90 6
95 6.8
97.5 7.6
So these men had really low semen volume to start with.
The one thing I would note is that semen volume varies a lot over time. And so 45 men, taking two samples is really not a lot of data. My own data (samples 48 hours apart over a one month period) has median of 5.17 with IQR 4.91-5.84.