High alcohol consumption increases the risk of infertility
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High alcohol consumption is
associated with an increase in the frequency of visits to a fertility problem,
suggests published in the journal "Fertility and Sterility" Swedish
study.
Preserve fertility
Tests have been conducted on the
link between alcohol consumption and fertility, but only in the short term,
specify January Eggert and his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm.
To study this problem in the long
term, the authors included 7393 women aged 18-28 years in 1969 and then
analyzed their responses to a questionnaire with two questions on alcohol
consumption and followed these patients for ten- eight years.
Just over 7% of women reported high
alcohol consumption (more than 140 g per week) and 22.7% low power consumption
(less than 50 g per week).
Over the study period, 252 women had
consulted a doctor for a fertility problem.
The authors calculated that, compared
to women with moderate consumption, the risk of consultation was increased by
58% among those admitting a high consumption of alcohol when he was reduced to
36% of those reporting a low power consumption.
Moreover, the probability of having
a child was reduced by 22% in women with a high which may be linked to an
increased risk of abortion and divorce rates, the authors point out drinking.
The likelihood of having a child was
also reduced by 13% among women with low levels of alcohol consumption, the authors
were unable to explain.
Finally, no difference between the
groups was found regarding the rate of miscarriage and the risk of ectopic
pregnancy.
"Apparently, it should be
recommended to women of infertile couples to limit their alcohol consumption or
completely stop drinking," the authors conclude.
Tobacco, coffee, tea and overweight
also guilty
A British study published in the
same issue of "Fertility and Sterility" is interested in the impact
of several factors on the fertility of couples.
Mohamed Hassan and his colleagues at
the University of Hull (UK) sent a questionnaire to 2,112 pregnant women.
Analysis of the responses shows that
the risk of getting pregnant more than twelve months after stopping
contraception was multiplied by 3.6 when the woman smoked more than 15
cigarettes per day, 2.2 when the partner consumed more 20 units of alcohol per
week, by 2.2 when the body mass index (weight ratio of the square of the
height) of the woman showed greater than 25 kg/m2 and 1.7 when consumption tea
or coffee exceeded 6 cups a day.
In addition, the time between
stopping contraception and early pregnancy was multiplied by seven for couples
with accumulated more than 4 of these "negative factors."
"The lifestyle has a significant and
cumulative impact on fertility," the authors conclude by stating that
appropriate counseling may reduce the proliferation of balance and fertility
treatments
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