en public specific review article <div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Background:</strong></em> Previous studies have investigated the associations between dietary patterns and male infertility, but found contradictory results. So, this meta-analysis was conducted to examine the association between dietary patterns and male infertility.<em><strong> Methods: </strong></em>An electronic search was conducted to identify the studies over association between dietary patterns and male infertility. The western and healthy dietary patterns were selected in this regard. The random-effect model was used to compute the summary risk estimates. <em><strong>Results:</strong></em> We found eight articles, of which five (n = 7679 participants) were included in our meta-analysis. This meta-analysis determined that the western dietary patterns containing high levels of processed, meat, high-fat dairy, and low levels of vegetables, fruit, and whole grains could significantly reduce the sperm concentration (MD = -0.07, <em>P</em> = 0.01). However, no significant relationship was observed between this dietary pattern and the sperm motility and morphology (MD = 0.01, <em>P</em> = 0.71, MD = 0.2, <em>P</em> = 0.39, respectively). Moreover, regarding the healthy dietary pattern, which contains high level of fruit, vegetables, whole grain, low-fat dairy, as well as low level of red meat and processed food, no significant relationship was observed (sperm concentration: MD = 0.11, <em>P</em> = 0.11, morphology: MD = -0.02, <em>P</em> = 0.42 and motility: MD = 0.35, <em>P</em> = 0.09).<em><strong> Conclusions</strong></em>: Findings of our meta-analysis suggested that the western dietary patterns could decrease the sperm concentration and reduce male fertility.&nbsp; Further prospective studies are required to confirm this result</div> Infertility, Dietary pattern, Semen quality, Meta-analysis, Systematic review 240 251 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-104&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Shirin Hasanizadeh No Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Amin Salehi-Abargouei No Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Mahdieh Hosseinzadeh Yes Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran