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Semen quality of Spanish university Southeast has worsened in the last decade, according to the conclusions of the doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Murcia by Laura Sarabia Cos.
The study, which has obtained excellent cum laude, notes that there has been "an adverse trend" both in terms of total sperm count and the sperm count.
For the realization of the doctoral thesis, which analyzes the period between 2001 and 2011, the author took into account, among other data, contained in a study on the same subject in Almeria and covering the years 2001 and 2002, for and to detect trends in recent years.
In addition, conducted a cross-sectional analysis on university students from Murcia to check your semen quality, for these provided a semen sample and is also undergoing an epidemiological questionnaire on lifestyle and food frequency.
Investigations revealed that there is a positive association between the consumption of antioxidant nutrients and total motile sperm count, seminal volume also increased with a higher intake of vitamin C.
It was also found that the recommendation to ingest the vitamin may be insufficient to achieve the maximum benefit in terms of quality of semen.
The doctoral thesis was supervised by professors from the University of Murcia Alberto Manuel Torres, Jaime Mendiola and Julian Arense.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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