Title
Overweight and obesity significantly reduce pregnancy, implantation, and live birth rates in women undergoing in vitro fertilization procedures
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
AlcÃvar Hospital
Publisher(s)
SBRA - Associação Brasileira de Reprodução Assistida (Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction)
Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of overweight and obesity on fertility outcomes in IVF procedures. Methods: This was a retrospective and nonrandomized study that included 191 IVF/ICSI cycles using non-donor oocytes performed between July 2016 and December 2018 that were allocated according to Body Mass Index (BMI) in three groups: Normal group: 18.5-24.9 (n=67 women), Overweight group: 25.0-29.9 (n=86 women) and Obesity group: ≥30.0 (n=38 women). We compared fertilization rates, embryo quality at day 3, development and quality of blastocyst, pregnancy rates, implantation rates, and live birth rates. Results: Patients from all groups had similar stimulation days, but those women with overweight and obesity used more hormones compared to women with normal weight (p<0.05). Fertilization rates, zygotes that underwent cleavage and good-quality embryos at Day 3 were similar between the three evaluated groups. The groups of overweight and obesity had embryos at Day 3 with significantly less cells, compared to those from the normal group (p<0.05). The blastocyst development rate was significantly lower in women with overweight and obesity compared to women with normal BMI (p<0.05); but, the percentages of good blastocysts were similar in all studied patients. Pregnancy, implantation and live birth rates were significantly lower in the group of women with overweight and obesity, compared to those women with normal weight (p<0.05). Obese women had significantly more miscarriages compared to those in the other groups (p<0.05). Conclusions: Our data shows that an increased BMI affects embryo development and significantly reduces the pregnancy, implantation and live birth rates.
Start page
394
End page
402
Volume
25
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otros temas de medicina clÃnica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85111021979
PubMed ID
Source
Jornal Brasileiro de Reproducao Assistida
Resource of which it is part
Jornal Brasileiro de Reproducao Assistida
ISSN of the container
15175693
Sources of information:
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