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IVF baby chances predicted by online calculator
Researchers have claimed that a new online calculator can help couples find out their chances of having a baby over multiple cycles of IVF treatment.
Developed by a research team at the University of Aberdeen, the tool, based on data from more than 113,000 women who have gone through IVF, could help couples shape their expectations and plan their treatments.
Data was analysed on 113,873 women, using their own eggs and partner’s sperm in 184,269 complete cycles, who started IVF or ICSI treatment between 1999-2008.
Couples can find out their chances both before and after their first IVF treatment - depending on the number of eggs that are collected, the health of the embryos transferred and the number of embryos collected for freezing. A couples' chances can then be adjusted for further future cycles.
In many situations, a couple's chances start to decline after the age of 30 and keep on decreasing the longer the woman is unable to conceive.
It is reported that one in six couples in the UK experience problems conceiving, and since the end of 2013, more than five million people had been born as a result of IVF or Icsi (intracytoplasmic sperm injection).
David McLernon, who led the research, said that the calculator will aid ‘clinicians communicating to couples their personalised chances of a live birth over an entire package of IVF treatment’. It will also ‘help to shape couples’ expectations allowing them to plan their treatments more efficiently and to prepare emotionally and financially’.
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