Prioritising for fertility treatments—the effect of excluding women with a high body mass index
- 10 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Vol. 113 (10), 1218-1221
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2006.00995.x
Abstract
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/m2. Treatments and outcomes were analysed from 1280 cases referred from 1998 to May 2005. Sixteen percent of women had a BMI of >32 kg/m2. 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/m2. Weight loss allowed women in the BMI group >322 to access treatment, but women in higher BMI groups were less successful.Keywords
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