Semen quality and aging: analysis of 9.168 samples in Cordoba. Argentina.

Objectives: Concomitantly with the actual trend towards later fathering, more detailed studies are necessary to establish the relationship between male age and seminal features. The objective of the present paper was to evaluate the relationship of men age with semen quality and with the seminal levels of epididymal and accessory gland markers.

Methods: The study was conducted as a retrospective study of 9168 cases obtained from the Andrology and Reproduction Laboratory in Cordoba, Argentina for 10 years (1995-2004) (men ages 20 to 77).

[Young football players aerobic perfomance in sub-maximum exercise with exhaustion at a moderate altitude without acclimation: experience in El Condor].

Antecedents: With the same intensity of sub-maximum effort, the concentration of serum (LS) or muscular lactate is higher in Hypoxia conditions, or exercise at an altitude without acclimation, in relation with normoxia or at sea level (MSL). The highest level of lactate after fatigue or in a test of strict anaerobic condition, would not be modified when altitude changes without previous acclimation.

Objective: To abtain local data about the magnitude of the affect in SL of a effective altitude at 1,700 meters without acclimation, as a parameter of aerobic performance of young soccer players of our environment who live and train at sea level.

[Body training and insulin resistance in two rural communities of Cordoba - Argentina].

Unlabelled: From the AF, the smaller risk is controversial. The influence of the general and environmental components on IR is not know in a satisfactory way.

Objectives: The influence of AF on the prevail IR in two rural communities of Córdoba with different fenotipical configuration and IR risk.

Effects of alcohol and cigarette consumption on human seminal quality.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of alcohol or cigarette consumption on seminal parameters in a large population of men attending an andrology laboratory.

Design: Analysis of ten years of data (1990-1999).

Setting: Andrology and Reproduction Laboratory (Córdoba, Argentina).