Nine months after learning of link between BPA, a chemical used in many plastic drinking bottles, and erectile dysfunction, researchers have tied the organic compound to reduced sperm counts and motility. The University of Michigan School of Public Health reports that researchers there recruited 190 men through a fertility clinic and had them give spot urine samples and sperm samples. The researchers, who detected BPA in 89 percent of the urine samples, found that when they compared men in the top quartile of exposure with the lowest quartile of exposure, sperm
concentration was on average about 23 percent lower in men with the
highest BPA. The study results also suggested a 10 percent increase in
sperm DNA damage.
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