Infertility Advice/WARNING:
Women using in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproduction methods can help their changes if they stop smoking during the infertility treatments, a study in the November issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggests. Researchers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic in Iowa City studied 499 women undergoing infertility treatments. On average, smokers or former smokers produced 2.5 percent fewer eggs than nonsmokers and had 2.0 fewer embryos to implant.
Current smokers were 50 percent less likely than former smokers or nonsmokers to achieve pregnancy, even when an equal number of eggs was implanted.
As written in the Atlanta Journal Constitution,
November 17,
1996
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