Correlation between gross domestic product, utilization of in vitro fertilization and pregnancy success rate across the world.

The objectives of this study were to assess whether utilisation is related to national wealth, presented as gross domestic product (GDP) and whether the GDP has any effect on success in IVF treatment, mainly delivery and clinical pregnancy rates. Our results demonstrated significant positive correlation between utilisation and GDP (CC =0.563, P = 0.00000194) and both utilisation and GDP have strong negative correlation to successful outcome of the treatment-clinical pregnancy rate (CC: -0.460, P = 0.00015; CC: -0.399, P = 0.0012; respectively) and delivery rates (cc=-0.396, p= 0.00484; cc=-0.3, p = 0.0179 respectively). Poor nations have less utilisation of IVF, probably due to limited affordability of treatment but reassuringly do not seem to have less success in the treatment. further research is required to fully understand the implications of these correlations and to better design national and international fertility policies. PMID: 31012790 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - Category: Health Management Tags: J Med Econ Source Type: research