Hello,
There's an article: Effects of Korean Red Ginseng on Semen Parameters in Male Infertility Patients, which I have uploaded. If someone can please look at it, I'm having some trouble with some statements being made in the article. It says that "All groups but not the non-V+P group, showed significant improvements in sperm concentrations, motility, morphology, and viability at the end of the study" But if you look at the table for the semen parameters, you see that sperm concentration, motility, morphology, and viability decreased significantly for those groups, except for sperm motility for V+KRG group, where it increased. Why are they claiming improvements when their results show none? Could someone please explain?
Thank you,
Joe.
Hi Joe,
As they mentioned in the article they compared their results with the baseline values presented in table no.1. After that, they presented the baseline in table no.2 under the name (pre-treatment) the post-treatment represents the changes compared to baseline. the changes in post-treatment of the Non-V+P group in table 2 were small or negative, so that's they said there is no significant difference in this group.
I understood that the authors compared their findings with the begining values presented in table 1, after that, the changes in theese values in post-treatment of the Non V+P group, table 2, were statistically not significant, that's whay.
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