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Table 4 Correlation coefficients for relationships between age, obesity-associated markers, serum reproductive hormone, lipid and leptin levels

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# FSH LH P E2 PRL TT E2/TT Serum leptin Seminal leptin Seminal SOD TC LDL-C HDL-C#
FSH − 0.046 − 0.052 0.013 0.033 0.039 0.012 0.057 0.130              
LH −0.210** −0.082 −0.025 0.005 − 0.014 0.008 −0.037 0.031 0.417****             
P 0.018 −0.058 0.018 0.038 0.032 0.035 0.019 0.002 −0.062 0.023            
E2 0.046 0.0239 0.041 0.011 −0.010 −0.012 −0.007 −0.030 0.014 0.022 −0.017           
PRL −0.079 0.022 0.011 0.015 0.027 0.004 0.043 0.020 0.105 0.212*** 0.167* −0.149*          
TT −0.106 0.025 0.032 0.034 0.011 −0.023 0.048 −0.004 0.034 0.105 0.222*** −0.050 0.170*         
E2/TT 0.081 0.016 0.015 0.016 −0.006 0.025 −0.044 −0.016 − 0.044 −0.048 − 0.112 0.726**** − 0.159* −0.607****        
Serum leptin 0.127 0.0003 −0.049 −0.039 −0.049 − 0.021 −0.006 − 0.005 0.130 0.045 −0.109 0.200** 0.112 −0.148* 0.224***       
Seminal leptin 0.112 −0.012 −0.019 −0.007 0.032 0.026 0.034 0.032 0.119 0.066 −0.192** 0.190* −0.038 −0.211** 0.263**** 0.701****      
Seminal SOD −0.021 0.089 −0.008 − 0.042 −0.028 − 0.026 −0.019 − 0.018 0.125 0.044 −0.080 0.117 −0.070 − 0.014 0.078 0.232*** 0.287****     
TC −0.069 − 0.006 0.038 0.043 0.040 0.057 0.014 −0.012 0.216*** 0.111 −0.075 0.131 −0.056 −0.118 0.092 0.293**** 0.263**** 0.140    
LDL-C −0.094 0.025 −0.022 − 0.007 −0.032 − 0.007 −0.047 − 0.034 0.187* 0.096 −0.097 0.137 −0.012 − 0.087 0.086 0.325**** 0.294**** 0.202** 0.853****   
HDL-C# 0.148* 0.065 −0.037 −0.082 −0.104 − 0.109 −0.028 − 0.125 0.060 − 0.064 0.059 − 0.074 −0.004 0.169* −0.142 − 0.064 −0.058 − 0.107 0.241*** 0.134  
TG −0.109 −0.135 0.031 0.093 0.079 0.088 0.052 0.133 0.142 0.187* 0.022 0.125 −0.059 −0.170* 0.164* 0.140 0.166* 0.106 0.443**** 0.249**** −0.294****
  1. WHR waist-to-hip ratio, WHtR waist-to-height ratio
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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

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