The influence of paternal overweight on sperm chromatin integrity, fertilization rate and pregnancy outcome among males attending fertility clinic for IVF/ICSI treatment

Table 4 Correlation between the paternal BMI (kg/m2), CMA3, TB, DFI, HOS, and ROS with ART outcome

		PBMI	CMA3	TB	DFI-SCD	HOS	ROS
Paternal BMI kg/m²	r =		0.79^**	0.114^*	0.282^**	0.012	0.282^**
	p =		< 0.001	.030	< 0.001	0.742	< 0.001
FR	r =	-0.187^**	-0.043	-0.031	-0.062	0.070	-0.148^**
	p =	< 0.001	0.261	0.422	0.107	.068	< 0.001
D3 Embr	r	-0.019	0.075	-0.049	-0.038	0.051	0.021
	p	0.70	0.593	0.13	0.45	0.301	0.59
EG_A	r =	0.052	0.08	0.021	0.030	-0.01	0.06
	p =	0.325	0.1	0.693	0.577	0.78	0.259
CR	r =	-0.110^**	.009	.024	-0.005	-0.023	0.042
	p =	0.004	0.814	0.526	0.897	0.556	0.277
BR	r =	0.01	0.07	0.08	0.09	0.23	-0.039
	p =	0.96	0.59	0.64	0.49	0.15	0.7
Euploid	r =	0.061	0.060	-0.014	0.007	-0.004	0.045
	p =	0.142	0.143	0.740	0.858	0.923	0.279
ET	r =	-0.052	0.011	0.015	-0.003	0.105^**	0.005
	p =	0.157	0.763	0.684	0.939	0.004	0.882
IR	r =	0.42	0.008	0.05	0.027	0.016	-0.062
	p =	0.25	0.83	0.17	0.45	0.654	0.09
CLBR	r =	-0.38**	0.002	0.025	-0.09	-0.03	-0.52
	p =	< 0.001	0.445	0.97	0.16	0.59	0.44

BMI, Body mass index; FR, fertilization rate; D3 embryo (day three embryos), EG_A, embryo grade A, CR cleavage rate; BR, blastocyst rate, ET, number of embryo transferred; IR, implantation rate; CLBR, Cumulative live birth rate.
Treatment statistically significant *p=0.05, **p=0.01, ***p<0.001

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