Consumption of hookahs, e-cigarettes, and classic cigarettes and the impact on medically assisted reproduction treatment.

ABSTRACT: Smoking of classic cigarettes has been well-established as a health risk factor, including cardiovascular, neurological, and pulmonary diseases. Adverse effects on human reproduction have also been shown. Smokers are assumed to have a significantly lower chance of pregnancy, however, the impact of smoking on medically assisted reproduction (MAR) treatment outcomes is controversial. Moreover, smoking habits have changed during the last decades since e-cigarettes and hookahs, or water pipes, have become very popular, yet little is known regarding vaping or hookah-smoking patients undergoing MAR treatments. This prospective study aimed to examine the presence of benzo[a]pyrene, nicotine, and its main metabolite, cotinine, in human follicular fluid (FF) in non-smoking, smoking, and vaping/hook

SUBMITTER: Trapphoff T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11053167 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature