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Perinatal exposure to low doses of dioxin can permanently impair human semen quality.

Environ Health Perspect · 2011 · PMC3094426 · PMID 21262597

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almost significantp = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
On the other hand, we observed an almost significant ( p = 0.07) sperm concentration decrease in the 21 breast-fed exposed men compared with the 18 formula-fed exposed men.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported
These data also showed that a much lower semen concentration was present in the breast-fed men with the highest exposure, but the dose–response model did not reach statistical significance; we observed only a tendency, possibly because of the small number of cases.

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