Asian women less likely to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization
(sz) Study authors say more research is needed to find the cause of lower success rate.
Asian women have a tougher time getting pregnant with in-vitro fertilization than their Caucasian counterparts, a U.S. study suggests.
Women of Asian descent were 29 percent less likely than their Caucasian counterparts to become pregnant after IVF, Dr. Karen Purcell of Fertility Physicians of Northern California in San Jose and her colleagues found.
Little data are available on how ethnicity affects outcome after infertility treatment, the researchers write in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
To investigate, Purcell and her team looked at national U.S. data on 25,843 whites and 1,429 Asians who underwent IVF, as well as more detailed information on 370 white and 197 Asian patients treated at one clinic in San Francisco. more…
From: »The Orange County Register«