Objective: To evaluate the impact of electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phones on
Fatma Elatebi2 sperm motility in fertile and subfertile men.
Amal Shohyeb1 Participants: This study was performed in two phases. Phase I included twenty normal (fertile) men and phase II included twenty men with severe oligospermia.
Ola El Gohary3
Methods: Semen samples were obtained and subjected to semen analysis. Each sample was
Ahmed Hosni1
divided into two equal parts one was placed close to a mobile phone handset and the other
1Department of Obstetrics and
was placed about five meters away. The mobile phone was kept in connection with the mobile
Gynecology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; 2Department of Obstetrics and phone network every ten minutes for 1 hour. Each semen sample was examined by a separate Gynecology, King Abdelaziz University,
investigator for motility at three time points: at the start of connection, after 30 minutes, and
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of
after 60 minutes. Motility was analyzed statistically.
Physiology, Benha University, Benha,
Egypt Results: Normal semen samples close to mobile showed statistically significant improvements when compared to the control for both the total motility and grade C motility after 60 minutes exposure (P , 0.0001 and P = 0.018, respectively.) Samples with severe oligospermia showed similar findings regarding total motility (P = 0.004) but not grade C motility (P = 0.068) Conclusion: This pilot study indicates a possible benefit in the use of electromagnetic waves for stimulating sperm motility, although the exact underlying mechanism is unclear. Further large studies, preferably blinded, are needed to confirm these findings and to investigate the
study that monitored the effects of electromagnetic wave exposure on bovine semen showed a significant (P , 0.001) decrease in the percentage of motile spermatozoa in experimental groups after 120 and 420 min of culture with exposure to micro¬waves, when compared to control cultures. A greater percentage of progressively motile spermatozoa were also similarly inhibited in motility following microwave exposure. Treatment with 1800 MHz radio frequency electromagnetic wave radiation
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