«After only two days of abstinence, sperm from patients
with male factor infertility initiate a process of quality degradation,» Dr. Eliahu Levitas of Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, and colleagues report in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Among cycles
with male factor infertility, ICSI use increased from 76.3 percent to 93.3 percent; for those without male factor infertility, ICSI use increased from 15.4 percent to 66.9 percent.
The introduction of ICSI in 1992 revolutionized the treatment of couples
with male factor infertility (infertility due to abnormal semen characteristics, abnormal sperm function, or surgical sterilization), and made paternity possible for a large proportion of men with no measurable sperm count.
Not exact matches
One finding from the study's survey was that women felt their advancement was hampered by a number of
factors, including informal interactions and mentoring
with and by their
male colleagues, as well as gender biases by entrepreneurs (who are mostly
male) in their perception of investors.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, -
male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available,
with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal
factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
Another
factor in the modern data set we must bring before the model is the mass entry of women into the work force and the erection of social policies that transfer benefits other than through bonds
with particular
male breadwinners.
Helping adolescent
males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key
factors found teenage fatherhood associated
with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).
During her seven years on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, she developed particular interest in severe
male factor infertility and genetic problems associated
with infertility.
In very broad terms, fertility diagnosis starts
with attempting to determine the impact of several major
factors for the
male and female partners
with testing and diagnosis:
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Factors researchers have identified as leading to
male postpartum depression include dad feeling burdened at the prospect of caring for a child, burdened
with the financial responsibility, and missing — or essentially feeling abandoned by — their wives.
Carried out for the Fabian Society and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the survey showed that 42 per cent of people think that
male bosses instinctively prefer to promote
male employees,
with 35 per cent believing that sexism and discrimination in the workplace were significant limiting
factors for women.
To understand if cell sex might be an additional important
factor influencing outcomes, the team incubated nanoparticles
with human amniotic stem cells (hAMSCs) which were extracted from the amniotic layer of placenta attached to
male and female fetuses.
Several
factors, the study noted, were associated
with higher lifetime prevalence of reporting a diagnosed concussion: Being
male, white, in a higher grade, and participating in competitive sports.
Significant child - level
factors associated
with greater odds of justice - system contact included being
male, having a mental - health diagnosis or child - protection contact, and academic failure.
Factors associated
with dating violence for both
males and females were African - American race, alcohol misuse, illicit drug misuse and depression.
ICSI had been carried out for the fathers of 50 out of 54 of the young men because of
male -
factor infertility (48 for
male infertility only, two for combined
male and female infertility), while the remaining four sets of parents suffered from infertility
with unknown cause.
In the absence of
male factor infertility, ICSI use was associated
with small but statistically significant decreases in implantation, pregnancy, live birth, multiple live birth, and low birth weight rates compared
with conventional IVF.
An analysis of 100 million US medical records reveals that autism and intellectual disability (ID) rates are correlated at the county level
with incidence of genital malformations in newborn
males, an indicator of possible congenital exposure to harmful environmental
factors such as pesticides.
One hypothesis for why females in many animal species frequently prefer to mate
with the most elaborately ornamented
males predicts that availability of carotenoid pigments is a potentially limiting
factor for both ornament expression and immune function.
Genetic
factors may account for differences and gender also influences bone composition
with males attaining greater bone mass.
Following the recommendation, a team of Moffitt researchers, including Vadaparampil, Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D. and Teri L. Malo, Ph.D., M.P.H., conducted a survey of more than 600 family physicians and pediatricians to examine
factors associated
with physician recommendations for
male HPV vaccination.
To confirm that the differences were a result of a hidden
factor on the X chromosome and not the lack of a Y chromosome, the team compared XY
male mice
with XXY
male mice, which carry an extra X chromosome.
Other
factors that are also associated
with increased prevalence rates include a history of incarceration or commercial sex work, geography, race / ethnicity, and being a
male younger than 29 years.
They contend that
male - female mating —
factored over generations — produces offspring
with enough genetic diversity to resist varied, evolving threats — from disease to changed climate.
There were positive associations of e-cigarette use
with male sex, Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander ethnicity, lower parental education level, and most environmental and intrapersonal
factors (Table 1).
Some of the
factors associated
with an increased likelihood of a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation include breast cancer diagnosis before age 50; both breast and ovarian cancers; multiple breast cancers; cases of
male breast cancer and Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity.
Diabetes appears to diminish the in general more favorable cluster of risk
factors of females compared
with males, leading to greater differences in central adiposity and risk
factors related to coagulation and inflammation between diabetes and nondiabetes in women rather than in men (33).
In most clinical studies, women
with T2DM show a higher burden of risk
factors and comorbidities as well as more cognitive and physical functional limitations than
males do (335, 336).
While the absence of a universal
male - or female - specific reproductive
factor is predictable due to the fast divergence of reproductive proteins and hence is compatible
with the hypothesis of multiple origins of spermatogenesis and oogenesis, it does not exclude the alternative single - origin hypothesis.
The lack of a universal
male reproductive
factor among all animal lineages, while consistent
with rapid evolution of
male reproductive genes, is in contrast to the prevalence of sexual reproduction and in particular to the similarity in
male gametogenesis among metazoan animals [34], [69].
AIDS is increasingly affecting women; and marriage — in which there can be frequent episodes of
male violence and sex
with multiple partners — has become a serious and significant risk
factor for acquiring HIV.13 In Uganda, for all its relative progress, rape and domestic abuse have been important
factors in sustaining the epidemic.14 Is it too much to hope that the searing catastrophe of AIDS may have put before women and men an issue that they can use to confront
male violence, exploitation, and stigma?
This is of concern, since several reports have indicated an increase in the incidence of
male reproductive disorders over the recent decades (Swan et al., 1997; Boisen et al., 2004, 2005; Richiardi et al., 2004) and the geographical distribution together
with migration studies (Hemminki and Li, 2002) have suggested that lifestyle and environmental
factors play key roles in the pathogenesis.
Data from a study on the characteristics of CKD patients, 55 percent of whom are
male, found that typically, 18 percent of CKD patients are of normal weight (BMI < 25), 29 percent are overweight (BMI 25 - 30) and 53 percent are obese (BMI > 30), 84 percent have hypertension and 42 percent have diabetes.8 Obesity is a risk
factor for CKD and hypertension, and is associated
with increased sodium excretion.
You can start
with the first, Functional Fertility Basics, or the second, Functional Fertility:
Male Factor.
Don't kid yourself; alcohol is a strong aggravating
factor, particularly
with male drinkers.
Closely monitoring several markers of cell damage (including creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, prostaglandin - E and tumor necrosis
factor - alpha) in their sample of 18
male athletes (who used 20 grams of creatine monohydrate per day for five days, mixed
with 60 grams of maltodextrine), the researchers found levels of these markers were reduced after the race, compared to 16 control subjects who took only the maltodextrine.
Bulking - up is a true concern for women
with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) because they already feel more masculine due to
factors such as central obesity, infertility,
male pattern hair growth and acne.
Declining testosterone in aging
males can be the result of several
factors one of these being an excess of the aromatase enzyme activity resulting
with too much testosterone being aromatised into estrogen.
We find so many women in particular whose hormone production has been interfered
with because of birth control pills, tubal ligation, hysterectomy or uterine ablation as well as the environmental
factors that put estrogen into
male and female bodies and throw them out of balance.
Wycherley TP, Brinkworth GD, Clifton PM, Noakes M. Comparison of the effects of 52 weeks weight loss
with either a high protein or high carbohydrate diet on body composition and cardiometabolic risk
factors in overweight and obese
males.
Like single Baltic Lady, Online Dating Ukraine has assigned each profile a trust level, where the staff has rated the women on multiple
factors such as; if they've met the woman, seen her passport, had phone or video conversations
with her, as well as the feedback from
male members.
With so much concentration in the media on threesome experiences,
males in the new millennium are exposed to the threesome fantasy nearly daily, which the experts behind the Kinsey study claim is the contributing
factor to men finding group sex more enjoyable.
Fear is a seriously complicating
factor, for not just African American
males, but all people, and it's at the root of those who have issues
with diversity.
However, this finding did not hold for females
with learning disabilities, and it was reduced when
males» high - school grades were
factored in.
Among the most disturbing findings is that for black
males the chances of being labeled «mentally retarded» actually increase as
factors associated
with wealth increase.
This climate, in turn, was a major
factor in the high level of relational trust found in this most unexpected place — a 100 percent low - income, African American population in a school serving a public housing project,
with a white,
male principal.
How to write a gender based income gap essay Writing about a gender based income gap essay requires that a person should be armed
with skills necessary to analyze the gap and
factors that cause the gap between
males and females.
When it comes to the tablet PCs the masculine
factor prevails
with 57 percent owners of tablets being
males, though here too the fairer sex seems to be making inroads as the same figure a year ago stood at 61 percent.
He also notes that it «is suspected that gender is a risk
factor,
with females suffering higher rates of constipation than
males.»