• Medicine · Mar 2023

    The impact of weight loss for obese infertile women prior to in vitro fertilization: A retrospective cohort study.

    • Chunjuan Shen, Weiping Fu, Chunxia Fang, Huan Zhou, and Liping Wang.
    • Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Jiaxing University Affiliated Maternity and Child Hospital, Jiaxing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Mar 10; 102 (10): e33009e33009.

    AbstractObesity is detrimental to general health and also reproductive health. This study aimed to evaluate whether weight reduction in obese infertile women prior to in vitro fertilization reduces the total gonadotropin dose and improves pregnancy outcomes. This retrospective cohort study was performed at the Jiaxing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital between January 2017 and January 2022, and 197 women were enrolled. The women were divided into 2 groups according to the weight loss goal of 5%: weight reduction group A (≥weight loss goal of 5%) and control group A (Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…

Want more great medical articles?

Keep up to date with a free trial of metajournal, personalized for your practice.
1,694,794 articles already indexed!

We guarantee your privacy. Your email address will not be shared.