Impact of race versus ethnicity on infertility diagnosis between Black American, Haitian, African, and White American women seeking infertility care: a retrospective review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether infertility diagnoses differ between Black ethnic subgroups.

Design

Retrospective review.

Setting

an urban safety-net hospital.

Patients

Women seeking infertility care between 2005 and 2015.

Interventions

Charts of women with infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnoses) were reviewed to confirm diagnoses. Data were stratified by race and subsequently by ethnicity to evaluate the differences in infertility diagnoses between Black American, Black Haitian, and Black African women. White American women were used as the comparison group.

Main outcome measures

Infertility diagnoses between Black ethnic subgroups and White women.

Results

A total

SUBMITTER: Handal-Orefice RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9349228 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature