Men infertility is related to other health illnessess

A new study shows that men with poor sperm count are at higher risk of having heart and vascular problems, skin diseases and endocrine system disorder.

The researchers gathered data from 9,000 men who sought help for infertility. The researchers analyzed their semen samples. The participants ages between 38 and 44. among the participants, 44 percent of them had been diagnosed with at least one medical condition either before or within one year after giving a semen sample. 30 percent of them had two or more diagnoses unrelated to infertility.

According to Dr. Michael Eisenberg, “We found a lot of correlations between semen production and medical conditions that we never knew about.” he is the director of male reproductive medicine and surgery at Stanford and lead author of the study.

“It’s a relationship that men and their doctors should appreciate. If there’s some problem with reproductive fitness it may be there’s an overall problem in fitness as well.”

In the US, at least 15 percent of couples face infertility problem and in more than half of the cases, it is the man who has the problem according to reports.

Eisenberg added, “Infertility could be a warning sign for another serious medical condition. That’s an excellent reason to get everybody evaluated.”

According to the researchers, the study proved the link between men infertility and poor health but additional research is needed to figure out the relationship between the two conditions.

Dr. James Smith, an urologist and director of male reproductive health at UCSF said that the result of the study suggests that the field of semen production and male infertility is ripe for further study.

He added, “It points out a lot of gaps in our understanding about the whole mechanism of how sperm is grown and develops in the first place.”