Assessment of semen quality of taxi drivers exposed to whole body vibration

Zarei, Sirvan; Dehghan, Somayeh Farhang; Vaziri, Mohammad Hossein; Gilani, Mohammad Ali Sadighi; Ardakani, Soheila Khodakarim

doi:10.1186/s12995-022-00357-z

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

Table 4 Results of the univariate analysis of variance of some sperm parameters for all participants

From: Assessment of semen quality of taxi drivers exposed to whole body vibration

Variable		Sperm Concentration
		P-value	95% Confidence Interval		Exp (B)
		P-value	Lower Bound	Upper Bound	Exp (B)
Age		0.162	− 0.552	3.244	−1.346
BMI		0.758	−5.862	4.285	− 0.789
Whole Body Vibration		0.249	−56.597	32.214	−49.376
Smoking Habit	Yes, Routinely	0.290	−16.597	41.652	−14.528
Smoking Habit	No	0.835	−20.146	24.873	2.363
Physical Exercise	No Exercise/Light Activity	0.551	−50.402	27.075	−11.664
Physical Exercise	Medium	0.721	−47.847	33.244	−7.302
Group	Taxi drivers	0.102	−103.783	9.501	−47.141
Variable		Progressive Motility
		P-value	95% Confidence Interval		Exp (B)
		P-value	Lower Bound	Upper Bound	Exp (B)
Age		0.399	−0.483	0.981	−0.399
BMI		0.914	−1.456	1.624	−0.084
Whole Body Vibration		0.314	−14.620	38.853	−13.117
Smoking Habit	Yes, Routinely	0.581	−10.581	5.964	−2.308
Smoking Habit	No	0.285	−3.185	10.688	3.751
Physical Exercise	No Exercise/Light Activity	0.197	−8.087	19.514	−7.713
Physical Exercise	Medium	0.186	−8.047	20.585	−7.302
Group	Taxi drivers	0.071	−33.104	1.441	−15.846
Variable		Immotile Sperm
		P-value	95% Confidence Interval		Exp (B)
		P-value	Lower Bound	Upper Bound	Exp (B)
Age		0.745	−0.831	1.157	0.163
BMI		0.745	−4.197	1.064	1.567
Whole Body Vibration		0.894	−46.908	40.984	2.962
Smoking Habit	Yes, Routinely	0.894	−15.191	13.060	1.066
Smoking Habit	No	0.333	−17.650	6.039	−5.805
Physical Exercise	No Exercise/Light Activity	0.620	−25.202	15.098	5.052
Physical Exercise	Medium	0.973	−24.388	20.673	7.302
Group	Taxi drivers	0.724	−24.207	34.728	5.261
Variable		Normal Morphology
		P-value	95% Confidence Interval		Exp (B)
		P-value	Lower Bound	Upper Bound	Exp (B)
Age		0.006	0.028	0.164	−0.096
BMI		0.135	−0.316	0.043	−0.136
Whole Body Vibration		0.121	−3.638	5.631	−2.631
Smoking Habit	Yes, Routinely	0.237	−1.542	0.387	−0.577
Smoking Habit	No	0.638	−0.616	1.000	0.192
Physical Exercise	No Exercise/Light Activity	0.441	−0.839	1.911	−0.536
Physical Exercise	Medium	0.495	−0.940	1.931	0.495
Group	Taxi drivers	0.442	−3.570	0.452	−1.559

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