Hyperlipidemia Is Not Related to Semen Quality, but to Serum Testosterone Levels

Table 6

Literature overview.

Author	Study; population (n)	Impact of lipids on semen parameters	Impact of lipids on reproductive hormone levels
Ergun et al. [9]	18	Lipids negatively correlate with sperm motility	Lipids negatively correlate with T
Attaman et al. [33]	99	Lipids negatively correlate with sperm count and concentration	Unstudied
Schisterman et al. [6]	491	Lipids are negatively correlated with sperm head morphology	Unstudied
Pons-Rejraji et al. [34]	17	Lipids are negatively correlated with semen parameters	Lipids have no effect on reproductive hormone levels
Hagiuda et al. [35]	167	No significant relationship between blood lipids and sperm concentration and viability	Lipids negatively correlate with T
Eisenberg et al. [15]	456	No significant relationship between lipids and semen quality	Unstudied
Lu et al. [16]	631	No significant relationship between blood lipids and semen parameters	Unstudied
Liu et al. [7]	7,601	Lipids positively correlate with sperm motility	Unstudied
Chen et al. [14]	8,395	Lipids positively correlate with sperm quality	Unstudied
Ma et al. [36]	181	Lipids positively correlate with sperm PR ratio, sperm concentration	Lipids positively correlate with FSH, LH
Osadchuk et al. [37]	90	No significant relationship between blood lipids and semen parameters	Unstudied
Andrade et al. [31]	278	Lipids negatively correlate with semen volume	Lipids negatively correlate with T

Literature in the table is sorted by year.