A German study suggests that the Chinese coronavirus can affect long-term male fertility, significantly affecting sperm quality over a 60-day period.
Researchers at Justus-Liebig University compared 84 coronavirus-infected men with a 104-member control group of the same age, and found, according to the Telegraph, that “sperm concentration was reduced by 516 percent, mobility by 209 percent, and sperm shape by 400 percent.”
“These effects on sperm are associated with lower sperm quality and reduced fertility potential,” explains PhD student Behzad Hajizadeh Maleki, who led the study.
“While these effects improved over time, they remained significantly and abnormally higher in the Covid-19 patients, and the magnitude of these changes was also related to the severity of the disease,” added Maleki, warning that “the male reproductive system should be considered a vulnerable pathway of Covid-19 infection and should be declared a high risk organ by the World Health Organization. “
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However, some experts suggested that longer-term studies would be needed to determine whether the impact of coronavirus on male fertility persists over time.
“Covid-19 enters host cells by binding its peak glycoprotein to the ACE2 receptor found in high concentrations in the testicles,” explains Dr. Channa Jayasena of Imperial College London.
“This has concerned us that Covid-19 could reduce male infertility,” continued Jayasena, but he further emphasized that “Being sick with a virus like the flu can temporarily lower your sperm count (sometimes to zero) for a couple. weeks or months. “
“This makes it difficult to figure out how many of the reductions seen in this study were specific to Covid-19 rather than just being sick,” he said.
“This study suggests that an inflammatory response in the testes may occur after Covid-19, making it more likely that Covid-19 affects male fertility.
“This makes it important to study the long-term effects of Covid-19 on male fertility.”
University of Sheffield Andrology expert Professor Allan Pacey sounded a similar warning, saying it was’ no mean feat ‘that the study’ was able to repeat [its] measurements every 10 days over a 60-day period, ”but that“ since sperm production takes roughly a little less than three months to complete from start to finish, ”it may have ended too early to draw definitive results.
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