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Fertility and Sterility

Volume 93, Issue 3, February 2010, Pages 1008-1010
Fertility and Sterility

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Surrogate obesity negatively impacts pregnancy rates in third-party reproduction

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In a retrospective cohort review of third-party reproduction, we observed that surrogate body mass index (BMI) negatively impacts implantation rates in oocyte-donor in vitro fertilization cycles. A BMI ≥35 kg/m2 cutoff is associated with a statistically significant decrease in pregnancy rates but not miscarriage rates.

Key Words

Body mass index
egg donor
implantation
obesity
oocyte donor
pregnancy
surrogate

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D.A.D. has nothing to disclose. C.M.D. has served as an invited speaker for Organon Biosciences. V.S. has nothing to disclose.

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