Optimizing natural fertility: a committee opinion
This report reviews mechanisms and techniques to optimize fertility in the fertile couple/individual.
Published
Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages 52-58
Authors:
Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in collaboration with the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Abstract:
This Committee Opinion provides practitioners with suggestions for optimizing the likelihood of achieving pregnancy in couples/individuals attempting conception who have no evidence of infertility. This document replaces the document of the same name previously published in 2013, Fertil Steril 2013;100(3):631-7.
Comments
This is clearly the best article I've read this year! It has wonderfully practical information that is immediately clinically useful. It offers either science or consensus to support useful recommendations. Further it confirms much of the practice that I've held over years, yet dispels other (fertility) practices that had been passed down over the years without support.
Are there data that support comparing the size of the effects on female infertility of the factors in Table 1 (e.g., smoking, drinking) to that of women's age (e.g., 37 or older)? That is, is older age a larger risk factor for women's infertility than the modifiable factors in Table 1? Thank you!