Diet-induced obesity in rats leads to a decrease in sperm motility

Table 1 Daily mean food and calories consumption in rats from SD and HFD groups

	15 weeks		30 weeks		45 weeks
	SD	HFD	SD	HFD	SD	HFD
Daily food intake (g)	28.6 ± 0.4^Aa	22.5 ± 0.3^ABb	27.1 ± 0.3^Ba	23.1 ± 0.3^Ab	26.5 ± 0.2^Ba	22.0 ± 0.2^Bb
Daily calories intake (kcal)	90.5 ± 1.2^Aa	91.8 ± 1.2^ABa	85.5 ± 1.0^Ba	94.4 ± 1.0^Ab	83.8 ± 0.7^Ba	89.7 ± 0.7^Bb
N	11	13	12	11	11	9

Data expressed as means ± SEM. The capital letters refer to comparison between times, while lower case letters refer to the comparison between SD and HFD groups. Different letters indicate a significant difference (p < 0.05, Two-Way ANOVA, post hoc Tukey Test)

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