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ArticleCentral European journal of urology2024

The temporary impact of COVID-19 on semen deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation.

Mykola Kvach, Oleg Nikitin, Andriy Kost, Oleg Banyra

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Article in Central European journal of urology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mykola KvachDepartment of Urology, O.O.Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Oleg NikitinDepartment of Urology, O.O.Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Andriy KostDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Oleg BanyraDepartment of Urology, St. Paraskeva Medical Centre, Lviv, Ukraine.

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Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is characterized by impact on different systems of human body. Recently, several anti-COVID vaccines have been developed. Material and methods: In our study, we included two groups of males: GROUP1, anti-COVID vaccinated males, n = 46, and GROUP2, n = 43, non-vaccinated males, who all fell ill with the Coronavirus infection. A level of semen DNA fragmentation was characterized by Sperm DNA Fragmentation Index (SDFI) that was calculated before infection and compared with data at every month after laboratory recovery. The Mann-Whitney test was used to establish differences between parameters, with p <0.05 considered significant. Results: Compared with the pre-COVID baseline we registered significant increasing of SDFI in each group of participants: 35.3 ±4.7% vs 18.6 ±5.8% in GROUP1, p = 0.0009, and 41.8 ±5.6% vs 19.2 ±6.1% in GROUP2, p = 0.0006. At the 2 Conclusions: COVID-19 causes a gradual increase in semen DNA fragmentation, which peaks at the 2

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COVID-19fertilitysemen DNA fragmentationspermatozoavaccination

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PMCPMC11428368

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