Table 1.
Partner’s age and referral diagnosis in relation to the age of the women undergoing IVF or ICSI.
Table 2.
The effect of women’s age on treatment practice and clinical outcome measures after IVF and ICSI.
Fig 1.
The initial rise* in hCG after single embryo transfer in IVF and ICSI treatments resulting in ongoing clinical pregnancy with fetal heart beat (week 7–8) increases significantly with increasing women’s age.
*hCG in blood plasma 14 days after day-2 transfer. Number of observations: IVF: 429; ICSI: 374. # Modeling age groups in a linear fashion.
Table 3.
Effect of women’s age on key morphology and cleavage evaluation parameters in oocyte, zygote and embryo in 5,650 IVF and 6,094 ICSI cycles.