Obesity

New obesity research reported from J.W. Vandersteeg and co-authors

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 20th, 2008

"Obesity is increasing rapidly among women all over the world. Obesity is a known risk factor for subfertility due to anovulation, but it is unknown whether obesity also affects spontaneous pregnancy chances in subfertile, ovulatory women," scientists in Netherlands report.

"We evaluated whether obesity affected the chance of a spontaneous pregnancy in a prospectively assembled cohort of 3029 consecutive subfertile couples. Women had to be ovulatory and had to have at least one patent tube, whereas men had to have a normal semen analysis. Time to spontaneous ongoing pregnancy within 12 months was the primary endpoint. The probability of a spontaneous pregnancy declined...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-20)

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