tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328727336381271692024-03-05T02:03:49.932-08:00Reproductive Acupuncture Center - St. Paul, MinnesotaReproductive Acupuncture Center Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11333556594165549246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732872733638127169.post-70942167497675089912012-09-13T15:00:00.001-07:002012-09-13T15:04:47.058-07:00Fertility & Exercise<br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: 14pt;"><b>ASRM
BULLETIN (reprint)</b></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><b>Volume 14, Number 18</b></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><b>March 16, 2012</b></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><b>Study Shows Moderate
Exercise May Help Normal Weight Women Get Pregnant Faster, While Vigorous
Exercise Delays Pregnancy for All But the Overweight or Obese</b></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Danish and US researchers
found evidence for a relationship between increasing levels of vigorous
exercise and longer times to conception in healthy, normal weight women who are
planning to become pregnant. In overweight and obese women planning pregnancy,
however, vigorous physical activity did not result in delays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Moderate levels of physical
activity were observed to result in small decreases in time to pregnancy
regardless of women’s BMI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The observational prospective
cohort study used the internet to recruit and administer questionnaires to 3628
women, age 18 to 40. Participants accepted into the study were required to be
in stable relationships with male partners, planning to become pregnant, and
not receiving any fertility treatments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The women were given baseline
questionnaires to gather information on their demographics, height, weight,
reproductive and medical history, lifestyle, and behavior. Follow-up
questionnaires were emailed to participants every two months for 12 months or
until the participant became pregnant. Eighty-three percent, or 3,027,
completed the study. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">One of the things the women
were asked at baseline was the average number of hours per week they exercised.
In addition, they were asked to report different types of moderate and vigorous
activity separately. Activities such as running, fast cycling, aerobics,
gymnastics, and swimming were characterized as vigorous. Brisk walking,
leisurely cycling, golfing and gardening were considered moderate. Assigning
values- total metabolic equivalents (METs)- to the activities, the researchers
quantified the amount of moderate and vigorous physical activity each
participant engaged in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The participants were
categorized by their exercise exposure and the results were further stratified
by BMI to see whether the effect of physical activity on time to pregnancy
differs according to body weight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The researchers found that
there was an inverse association between vigorous physical activity and how
long it took to become pregnant for normal weight women (BMI under 25). In
overweight or obese women (BMI of 25 or above) there was no association between
vigorous exercise and a longer time to pregnancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Moderate physical activity
was associated with improved time to pregnancy across the range of BMI. Women
who engaged in 20-39 MET hours per week of physical activity had the shortest
times to pregnancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">ASRM President-Elect, Linda
Giudice, MD, PhD, noted, “This study is particularly interesting because its
participants were recruited from the general population, not from infertility
patients. It points out the benefits of moderate exercise to all women who are
planning a pregnancy and suggests that women might reduce their time to
pregnancy by modulating their exercise programs.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><b>Wise et al, A
prospective cohort study of physical activity and time-to-pregnancy, Fertility
and Sterility in press.</b></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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Reproductive Acupuncture Center Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11333556594165549246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732872733638127169.post-68169603832926546882012-05-29T15:17:00.000-07:002012-10-30T15:24:53.655-07:00IVF Treatment Not Associated with Overall Increased Rate of Breast Cancer<b>ASRM BULLETIN (Reprint) </b><br />
<b>Volume 14, Number 30 </b><br />
<b>MAY 29, 2012 </b><br />
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Highlights from <i><b>Fertility and Sterility</b></i>: IVF Treatment not Associated with Overall Increased Rate of Breast Cancer; Some Increased Risk Found in Younger Patients.<br />
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In a large population-based study out of Western
Australia, researchers have found that IVF is not associated with an
overall increased risk of breast cancer. However, the analysis of 20
years' worth of linked hospital and registry records
demonstrates an underlying, age-related connection between IVF
treatment and breast cancer.<br />
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The effect of IVF on breast cancer
rates differed depending on the age of the women at the time
treatment was commenced. In younger, but not older, patients there
was an association between having IVF and an increased risk of breast
cancer. Women who first underwent IVF treatment at age 24 were about
one-and-a-half times more likely to develop breast cancer than women
of the same age who received a non-IVF infertility treatment. Women
who commenced IVF at 40 had no increased risk. <br />
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The cohort study was
designed to compare rates of breast cancer between women whose
infertility treatment included IVF and women who received other
infertility treatments and utilized data from 21,025 women undergoing
investigation or treatment in hospital for infertility in Western
Australia from 1983 to 2002. Of the total, 7,381 women had IVF and
13,644 did not. Patients were between the ages of 24 and 44 at their
first admission. Women with prior breast cancer diagnoses and those
who developed breast cancer within six months of their first
infertility admission were excluded from the study.<br />
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The data were
adjusted to account for potential confounders on record, such as age
at first delivery, delivery of twins or higher-order multiples, age
at entry to the cohort, and socioeconomic status. While age at first
delivery was associated with an increased breast cancer rate, the
delivery of twins or higher-order multiples suggested a reduced rate
of cancer. Linda Giudice, MD, PhD, President-elect of ASRM,
noted, "The development of breast cancer is linked to estrogen
exposure and the longer one is exposed, the greater the risk. In an
IVF cycle, there is a short, but significant elevation in circulating
estrogen, and whether this is linked to the observations found in this
study is not clear at this time. Women should be reassured that,
overall, IVF was not associated with an increased risk for
development of breast cancer. However, as noted in the study, women
in their thirties and forties still need to be aware of the increased
risk of breast cancer associated with delivering one's first
child at this stage of reproductive life. For younger women, there
is the possibility that IVF is associated with increased risk, but
more research is needed to confirm this." Stewart et al., In
vitro fertilization and breast cancer: is there cause for concern?Reproductive Acupuncture Center Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11333556594165549246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732872733638127169.post-63445885943741624592012-04-24T12:14:00.000-07:002012-10-30T15:25:59.212-07:00Costs of Infertility Treatments over 18 MonthsIn the March 30, 2011 Bulletin of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, <i><b>Fertility and Sterility</b></i>, researchers at UCSF published a study of 398 women who chose reproductive endocrinology as an approach to getting pregnant. None had undergone IVF prior to the study.<br />
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The average per-person costs were $1,182 for medication-only to $24,373 for IVF and $38,015 for IVF-DE (with donor eggs). Treatment costs for successful outcomes were higher: $5,894, $61,377 and $72,642 respectively.<br />
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