Evidence that obesity alters the quality of oocytes and embryos

RL Robker - Pathophysiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Infertility is more common in overweight and obese women, with reproductive impairments
occurring at many levels of the hypothalamic-ovarian-uterine axis. These impairments lead
primarily to longer times to conception and decreased pregnancy rates and have resulted in
increasing numbers of overweight and obese women seeking assisted reproduction
technologies, such as in vitro fertilization or IVF. Even after undertaking IVF procedures
obese women have decreased pregnancy rates compared to moderate weight women …