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

Table 6 Correlation coefficients for relationships between semen parameters, serum reproductive hormone, lipids and leptin

	FSH	LH	P	E2	PRL	T	E2/T	Serum Leptin	Seminal Leptin	Seminal SOD	TC	LDL-C	HDL-C#	TG
Semen volume (mL)	−0.069	0.068	−0.050	0.024	−0.165*	− 0.016	− 0.007	0.116	0.022	− 0.008	− 0.023	0.026	− 0.057	− 0.028
Ratio of PR sperm (%)	− 0.031	0.014	− 0.009	0.075	0.020	0.054	0.012	−0.036	−0.055	0.035	0.052	0.028	0.173*	−0.050
Ratio of PR + NP sperm (%)	0.019	0.069	0.022	0.067	0.045	0.045	0.012	−0.028	−0.057	0.006	0.075	0.044	0.190*	−0.039
Sperm concentration (10⁶/ml)	−0.042	0.001	0.102	0.016	0.088	−0.008	0.011	0.008	−0.017	−0.036	0.092	0.036	0.207**	0.012
Ratio of morphologically normal sperm (%)	−0.099	− 0.116	0.004	−0.013	0.075	0.179*	−0.115	−0.223**	− 0.201**	−0.243***	− 0.162*	−0.175*	− 0.022	−0.044

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