Epidemiology and aetiology of male infertility
Epidemiology and aetiology of male infertility
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DOI：
10.1093/humrep/13.suppl_1.33
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发表时间：
1998-04-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Irvine, DS
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作者：
Irvine, DS
不育是一个普遍问题，每六对夫妇中可能就有一对受到影响，其中大多数人现在都寻求医疗护理。虽然诊断问题使得很难确定男性伴侣的贡献程度，但一些研究表明，男性问题是不育症最常见的单一定义原因，世界卫生组织提出了一个男性不育症诊断分类计划，基于临床评估和精液质量评估的标准化方法。其中一些分类现在是有争议的，许多是描述性的，而不是病因学的，越来越多的职业，环境，特别是遗传因素在男性不育症的病因中的重要性正在被认识到。
Infertility is a common problem, affecting perhaps one couple in six, the majority of whom now seek medical care. Although diagnostic problems make it difficult to establish the extent of the male partner's contribution with certainty, a number of studies suggest that male problems represent the commonest single defined cause of infertility, The World Health Organization has proposed a scheme for the diagnostic classification of male infertility, based upon a standardized approach to clinical assessment and to the assessment of semen quality. Some of these classifications are now controversial, and many are descriptive, rather than aetiological, Increasingly, the importance of occupation, environmental and particularly genetic factors in the causation of male infertility is being recognized.