What are the causes of infertility in men?
Male infertility is far more common than people think and account for around a third of all infertility cases (Ref: HFEA).
Most of these are likely to be sperm disorders such as low sperm count etc.
The main causes of male infertility are:
- Low sperm count (oligspermia)
- Absence of sperm (azoospermia)
- Injury to the testicles
- Hormonal disorder
- Variococele
- Trauma or disease of the vas deferens
- Medical conditions which affect fertility
- Side effects from certain medications
- Exposure to environmental factors and toxins
- Genetic disorder (e.g. chromosome abnormality)
- Age (male fertility can start to decline from the mid thirties)
- Lifestyle issues, e.g. smoking
And not forgetting a small percentage of cases in which the cause of the infertility cannot be found. This is known as ‘idiopathic infertility’.
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