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Effect of Life Style Behaviors on Assisted Reproductive Techniques [ART]

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Gynecology and Obstetrics

Abstract

Background: Infertility means a couple in their reproductive age not bearing a child after a year's unprotected intercourse. It has a global prevalence of 12% to 15%.
Aim of the work: The aim of this study is to evaluate the combined effect of several lifestyle behaviors [Exercise, smoking, alcohol, dietary habits and stress] on assisted reproductive techniques [ART] outcomes.
Patients and Methods: This study included 700 patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Patients answered a questionnaire [simple life style questionnaire; SLIQ] and analysis examined the relationship between lifestyle with the intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles outcomes. Comparison of SLIQ scores as measured by the scoring template with scores obtained by the health professionals' blinded assessment of the questions validated our scoring scheme. We achieved a correlation coefficient of 0.77 [P<0.001] between SLIQ scores and blinded reviewers' scores.
Results: The mean number of oocytes was 6.31±5.5; and [73%] of oocytes were of good quality; the mean number of embryos was 3.22±3.36 and 69.0% were of good quality. Finally, 399 patients [57%] get pregnant. There was significant relation between life style behaviors and results of ART. There was Positive correlation between [total score and each of quality of oocytes, quality of embryos and pregnancy test.
Conclusion: This study has highlighted that lifestyle behaviors can adversely affect general health and reproductive performance.

DOI

10.21608/ijma.2019.14526.1017

Keywords

Assisted reproductive techniques [ART], Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection [ICSI], Intra uterine insemination [IUI], quality of life, Simple life style questionnaire

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Elsawy

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Affiliation

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Damietta General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Egypt

Email

elsawy20022000@gmail.com

City

belqas

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First Name

Khattab

Last Name

Omar

MiddleName

Abdelhaleem

Affiliation

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

dr.khattababdelhalim@hotmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Moahmed

Last Name

Abd Elaal

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Affiliation

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The International Islamic Center for Population Studies and Research, Egypt

Email

msarsoba@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Salah

Affiliation

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University

Email

dr.m.s.rady@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-5858-9263

Volume

2

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

10770

Issue Date

2020-01-01

Receive Date

2019-07-23

Publish Date

2020-01-01

Page Start

185

Page End

190

Print ISSN

2636-4174

Online ISSN

2682-3780

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Original Article

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816

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Publication Title

International Journal of Medical Arts

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https://ijma.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Life Style Behaviors on Assisted Reproductive Techniques [ART]

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Created At

22 Jan 2023