Moderate and increased physical activity is not detrimental to live birth rates among women with unexplained infertility and obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if moderate physical activity is associated with live birth rates in women with unexplained infertility and obesity.

Design

Secondary analysis of the Improving Reproductive Fitness through Pretreatment with Lifestyle Modification in Obese Women with Unexplained Infertility trial.

Setting

US fertility centers, 2015-2019.

Patients

A total of 379 women participated in Improving Reproductive Fitness through Pretreatment with Lifestyle Modification in Obese Women with Unexplained Infertility trial, a lifestyle modification program with increased physical activity (phase I, 16 weeks) and up to three cycles of clomiphene citrate treatment and intrauterine insemination (phase II).

Interventions

Participants were instructed to add 500 steps

SUBMITTER: Vitek WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504528 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature