Combined advanced parental age has an additive negative effect on live birth rates —data from 4057 first IVF/ICSI cycles

ConclusionsThere is an additive effect to pregnancy and live birth rates when both partners are of an advanced age, thus highlighting the need for pre-conception public health messaging and a combined approach to ART counselling assessing both parental ages in combination.

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10815-017-1054-8

Source: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics - October 4, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: research