The Chances Of Success For IVF Improve The More Times You Do It, Study Finds, But It Also Highlights The Gap In Accessibility
By Erin McKelle Fischer,
Bustle
| 12. 30. 2015
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For couples struggling with fertility, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, has become an increasingly popular choice to facilitate pregnancy. But what are the chances of success for IVF? Although the likelihood of it succeeding remain relatively low, new research published in JAMA found some curious results: The more rounds of IVF are performed, the more likely the procedure is to work. IVF treatment is usually stopped if several rounds result in failure, so this finding could be groundbreaking — although it also highlights the gap in accessibility: You can improve your chances of success with IVF... as long as you can afford to pay for it.
The researchers studied over 156,000 women from the UK who had all undergone IVF treatment between 2003 and 2010. Overall, they found that the percentage of women who had received one IVF round and gone on to give birth was 29.5 percent. For those who had undergone up to six rounds, the figure rose to 65 percent, a solid majority. It's also worth noting that the results were impacted by the...
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