Ethnicity of women undergoing fertility treatment can affect outcomes, study finds

The ethnicity of women undergoing fertility treatments like IVF can affect the rate of successful live births, according to new research by experts at The University of Nottingham and the Royal Derby Hospital’s Fertility Unit. 

The research looked at nearly 39,000 women undergoing their first cycle of In-Vitro Fertilisation or Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection between 2000 and 2010. The work was carried out using data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. 

The study found that certain ethnic groups have significantly lower chances of live births using fertility treatments than other groups. The research is published on Friday 19 August 2016 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG) and is the largest to date to look at individual sub-ethnic groups as an independent factor on the success rates of fertility treatment. 

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