IVF affected by air pollution
Filed under: IVF — Alan @ 3:00 am
Fertility scientists from the US have said that air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide may affect the outcome of invitro fertilization.
The US team said that it studied the outcomes of the first IVF treatments of 7,403 women at the Hershey Medical Center at Penn State, Shady Grove Fertility in Maryland, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at the New York Columbia University over a seven year time span stretching from 2000 to 2007.
Penn State Professor Duanping Liao stated that they found that there are significant links that show air pollution may increase the risks of blood-clotting and inflammation. These two factors are linked with reproductive health along with many other ill human health effects such as chronic conditions, mortality, and cardiovascular disease.
Researchers from the study feel their findings could be used to show how air pollution may damage human reproduction in general because IVF allows scientists to take a look of air pollutants on reproduction in a controlled setting.
Liao continued to say that the findings from the study could be used to look at how air quality plays a role in fertilization, delivery, and pregnancy due to the fact that IVF is a highly timed process with a high level of control allowing them to see the time of exposure to air pollutants in relation to reproductive factors.
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