Male fertility and its association with occupational and mobile phone towers hazards: An analytic study

Objective: The aim of the study is to determine the association of male fertility with the occupational and mobile phone towers hazards. Background: Male reproductive ability is likely to have multiple genetic and environmental determinants. A seminal fluid analysis is clinical marker of male reproductive potential. Aim: To find out whether environmental hazard such as mobile phone tower has an effect on male reproductive ability. Methods: Two hundred couples were enrolled, one hundred subfertile couples as a study group (n = 100), and one hundred fertile couples as a control group (n = 100). Environmental exposure to electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone towers and occupational state was assessed by standard questionnaire. Semen analysis was done for the subfertile males, because the fertile males (control group) refused to give semen samples. Results: The occupational hazard expressed significant difference between the subfertile and the control groups (38% versus 12%) (p