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Prioritising for fertility treatments—the effect of excluding women with a high body mass index
Author(s) -
Gillett WR,
Putt T,
Farquhar CM
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2006.00995.x
Subject(s) - fertility , body mass index , index (typography) , demography , medicine , computer science , sociology , population , world wide web
The effect of clinical priority access criteria for access to infertility treatment was examined for women outside the body mass index (BMI) range of 18–32 kg/m 2 . Treatments and outcomes were analysed from 1280 cases referred from 1998 to May 2005. Sixteen percent of women had a BMI of >32 kg/m 2 . Overall, 38% of these women had a birth from conceiving a treatment‐related pregnancy or spontaneous pregnancy, compared with 52% of women with BMI < 32 kg/m 2 . Weight loss allowed women in the BMI group >32<35 kg/m 2 to access treatment, but women in higher BMI groups were less successful.
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