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Infertility and overweight
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2013
In a nutshell
Excess fatness adversely affects fertility, decreasing pregnancy rates by approximately 30%, both for natural and assisted reproduction. It does so by changing the hormonal, inflammatory and energetic environment in both men and women.
There is some evidence that weight reduction (including through bariatric surgery in the obese) can help reverse this. However, we lack RCTs to confirm this.
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