Seasonal Variations in Testicular Volume and Seminal Parameters in Human

Abstract

The present descriptive study was designed to analyze the seasonal variation in the semen parameters and testicular volume in Azad Jammu & Kashmir. This study was included twenty men age ranged from 20 to 30 years. The data was statistically analyzed by Student’s T test by using SPSS. It was found that left and right testes have significant variation in summer vs winter and spring vs winter, while no significant difference was found between summer and spring season. Significance difference was found in semen volume in summer vs winter (p= 0.002) and spring vs winter (P= 0.002). There was no significant difference in semen volume between spring and summer (p= 0.071). No significant difference was found in total sperm count percentage, dead sperm percentage and sluggish sperm percentage in three studied seasons of year. Abnormal sperm percentage has shown significant variation in summer vs spring (p= 0.001) but no significance difference was found in winter vs summer (p= 0.42) and spring vs summer (p= 0.012).