Sports-related Male Infertility

Eur Urol Focus. 2019 Nov;5(6):1143-1145. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2018.04.010. Epub 2018 May 3.

Abstract

Many common sports and sports-related behaviors and practices represent potential sources of male infertility. Clinicians should be aware of these associations in the evaluation of idiopathic infertility in men.

MeSH terms

  • Azoospermia / diagnosis
  • Azoospermia / etiology
  • Bicycling / physiology
  • Humans
  • Infertility, Male / epidemiology
  • Infertility, Male / physiopathology*
  • Male
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Oligospermia / diagnosis
  • Oligospermia / etiology
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Spermatogenesis / physiology*
  • Sports / physiology*