Correspondence: semen parameters in men who recovered from covid-19 - a systematic review and meta-analysis

Diogo Edele Dos Santos; Tamy Colonetti; Lidia Rosi Medeiros; Maria Laura Rodrigues Uggioni; Antonio Jose Grande; Maria Inês da Rosa

doi:10.1186/s43043-022-00115-5

Correspondence: semen parameters in men who recovered from covid-19 - a systematic review and meta-analysis

Middle East Fertil Soc J. 2022;27(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s43043-022-00115-5. Epub 2022 Aug 18.

Authors

Diogo Edele Dos Santos¹, Tamy Colonetti¹, Lidia Rosi Medeiros¹, Maria Laura Rodrigues Uggioni¹, Antonio Jose Grande², Maria Inês da Rosa¹

Affiliations

¹ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Criciúma, SC Brazil.
² Medical Course, Laboratory of Evidence-Based Practice, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, Dourados, MS Brazil.

Abstract

A recent systematic review with meta-analysis performed by Tiwari et al. (Middle East Fertil Soc J 26:44, 2021) suggested that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects both semen parameters and sexual hormones. However, we have observed a few inconsistencies in their systematic review methods and their synthesis of results (meta-analysis), which would have impacted their results.