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"Have you ever been sexually active for a year or more without using contraception and becoming pregnant?" A study by George Mason University's Dean of the College of Health and Human Services, Dr. Germaine M. Buck Louis*, and colleagues from the University at Albany and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) suggests that asking this question could help clinicians better understand women and infants' health.
With professional medical societies now considering infertility a disease, Buck Louis and colleagues conducted a study to assess parental health status including infertility and infant outcomes, such as gestation and birth size (weight, length, and head circumference). "Parental health status and infant outcomes: Upstate KIDS Study" was published in January in Fertility and Sterility. They found that infertility was significantly associated with a shorter gestation and diminished birth size, although the magnitude of reductions varied by definition of infertility.
Infertility was the most consistently observed medical condition associated with smaller birth size even when adjusting for infertility treatment. When infertility was defined most broadly as ever being sexually active without using contraception and becoming pregnant, infants born to infertile women weighed less (62 grams), were slightly shorter (0.33 cm) and had smaller (0.35 cm) head circumferences in comparison to women without infertility. Also, women with a history of hypertension or asthma had shorter pregnancies and lighter infants than women without these chronic diseases. Their findings suggest that maternal health status inclusive of infertility is important for fetal growth, as measured by infants' size at birth..."
Learn more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180208131716.htm
With professional medical societies now considering infertility a disease, Buck Louis and colleagues conducted a study to assess parental health status including infertility and infant outcomes, such as gestation and birth size (weight, length, and head circumference). "Parental health status and infant outcomes: Upstate KIDS Study" was published in January in Fertility and Sterility. They found that infertility was significantly associated with a shorter gestation and diminished birth size, although the magnitude of reductions varied by definition of infertility.
Infertility was the most consistently observed medical condition associated with smaller birth size even when adjusting for infertility treatment. When infertility was defined most broadly as ever being sexually active without using contraception and becoming pregnant, infants born to infertile women weighed less (62 grams), were slightly shorter (0.33 cm) and had smaller (0.35 cm) head circumferences in comparison to women without infertility. Also, women with a history of hypertension or asthma had shorter pregnancies and lighter infants than women without these chronic diseases. Their findings suggest that maternal health status inclusive of infertility is important for fetal growth, as measured by infants' size at birth..."
Learn more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180208131716.htm
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