BACKGROUND The use of fertility drugs (FDs) is steadily increasing in Western countries and concern has been raised as to the possible impact of fertility treatments on breast cancer risk. METHODS We analysed this association in the French E3N study. In this prospective cohort, data on treatment against infertility, duration and time of administration were collected at entry through self-admi...

OBJECTIVES Using a statistical modelling approach, our study aim is to determine reliable age-related estimates of the risk of all-cause tubal factor infertility (TFI) following past or current chlamydial infection in women in Scotland. METHOD Using data from several sources, a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo model was used to estimate the age-related risk of TFI given genital chlamydia infection at...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of clinical guidelines on the management of infertility across the primary care-secondary care interface. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING General practices and NHS hospitals accepting referrals for infertility in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area. PARTICIPANTS All 221 general practices in Glasgow; 214 completed the trial. INTER...

OBJECTIVE To assess physicians' awareness of the infertility risk associated with race, age, and education, and to elicit their clinical management recommendations for a hypothetical patient. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Surveys were mailed to 1,000 randomly selected primary care physicians in the state of Michigan. PATIENT(S) None. INTERVENTIONS(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUR...

Background Infertility is a public health issue with significant impact on the well-being of affected couples. Aim This paper aims to detect determinants pregnancy and their outcome after assisted reproductive therapy (ART) in sample Palestinian society. Methods A retrospective observational study was carried out at Razan Medical Center for Infertility. Subjects were assigned into twelve catego...

Infertility is a public health problem in developed and developing countries. Diagnostic laparoscopy is a generally accepted procedure to detect pelvic organ pathologies affecting fertility. This study was undertaken to find out the tubal pathology contributing to primary and secondary infertility by laparoscopic examination. The study was carried out in the department of Gynaecology and Obstet...

Women with recurrent abortion, primary unexplained infertility, and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) manifest disordered human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) secretion. Mutations in the HCG beta/luteinizing hormone (LH) beta gene complex could cause aberrant HCG production in these disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine whether HCG beta gene deletions occur in women with ...

Infertility is a serious but entirely neglected public health problem in resource-poor countries. Most of the infertility is caused by infections and therefore potentially preventable. The problem of infertility in Rwanda has not been -researched so far. We examined predictors for infertility and treatment-seeking behaviour in an unmatched case-control. We performed infertility investigations i...