Air pollution found to risk chances of live birth from IVF
NEW DELHI, July 9 (PTI): Air pollution could lower the chances of a live birth from in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by nearly 40 per cent even in areas with “excellent” air quality, a study has found.
IVF involves fertilising a mature egg with a sperm in a lab to form an embryo, which is then placed in a uterus to develop into a baby.
In this study, over an eight-year period, researchers analysed close to 3,660 frozen embryo transfers (an IVF procedure) from 1,836 patients in Perth, Australia. During the transfer process, frozen embryos are thawed and placed in a woman’s uterus.
