A new study has come up with findings that could be really concerning for infertile men. The study has found that infertile men face a very high risk of dying earlier compared to men with normal sperm.

The study involved young and middle-age men who were infertile due to several problems with their sperm, like low sperm count and impaired sperm movement. It was deduced that chances of early death for the men with fertility problems were twice as high as for men with normal sperm.

All the men who participated in the study had overall risk of dying less than 1%. But the risk of dying was still higher for the men with sperm abnormalities even after the factors like age and health conditions, like diabetes or heart failure, were taken into account.

However, researches could not ascertain why sperm abnormalities increase the risk of death among men, said study researcher Dr. Michael Eisenberg, an assistant professor of urology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Eisenberg said that the men in the study were trying to have children and were reasonably healthy. The researchers said that further researches are required to deeply study the link between sperm abnormalities and risk of death.

A link between infertility and poor health outcomes later in life was suggested by previous researches. However, it has been found for the first time that infertility has a direct link with the risk of early death among men. The conclusion was reached after analyzing information from about 12,000 men who visited fertility clinics in California and Texas.

"There was an inverse relationship. In the years following their evaluation, men with poor semen quality had more than double the mortality rate of those who didn't", Eisenberg said.

Infertility has been reported as a big problem in developed countries, where about one in seven couples is impacted because of the same at some point in their life.