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Table 3 Correlation coefficients for relationships between age, obesity-associated markers and semen parameters

From: Association between obesity-associated markers and semen quality parameters and serum reproductive hormones in Chinese infertile men

  Age Height# Weight BMI WC Hip WHR WHtR# Semen volume PR PR + NP Sperm concentration
Height (cm)# −0.085            
Weight (kg) 0.079 0.363****           
BMI 0.142 −0.005 0.926****          
WC (cm) 0.174* 0.136 0.887**** 0.912****         
Hip (cm) 0.087 0.153* 0.861**** 0.880**** 0.897****        
WHR 0.234*** 0.098 0.659**** 0.686**** 0.844**** 0.523****       
WHtR# 0.223*** −0.115 0.780**** 0.895**** 0.960**** 0.814**** 0.859****      
Semen volume (mL) −0.153* 0.124 −0.080 − 0.132 − 0.092 − 0.096 −0.049 − 0.077     
Ratio of PR sperm (%) −0.121 − 0.004 − 0.031 − 0.035 − 0.098 −0.024 − 0.144 − 0.128 − 0.078    
Ratio of PR + NP sperm (%) −0.109 0.001 −0.035 − 0.037 − 0.111 −0.037 − 0.156* −0.148* − 0.092 0.954****   
Sperm concentration (106/ml) −0.089 − 0.095 − 0.133 − 0.121 − 0.181* − 0.170* − 0.144 − 0.200** − 0.081 0.385**** 0.489****  
Ratio of morphologically normal sperm −0.048 − 0.052 0.061 0.082 0.091 0.073 0.089 0.095 0.004 0.009 −0.017 − 0.017
  1. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.005; **** p < 0.0001; # not normally distributed by Shapiro-Wilk normality test