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Assisted Reproduction
"Side-stream" smoking is as damaging to IVF success as being a smoker
June 16th, 2005
It has been known for some time that smoking can affect a woman's fertility, but Canadian research published in the May 2005 issue of Human Reproduction suggests that exposure to side-stream smoking - smoke given off by a smoldering cigarette - is just as damaging. In a study of women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic injection (ICSI), researchers from McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, in Hamilton, Ontario, examined the quality of embryos and the implantation and pregnancy rates of 225 women who were grouped according to whether they were nonsmokers, smokers, or side-stream smokers (side-stream smokers being defined as...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-16)
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