Long term all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among women who undergo fertility treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare age-adjusted all-cause and CVD mortality, relative to the general female population, for women registered for fertility treatment who received it and those who did not.

Design

Prospective cohort study; analysis of Monash IVF clinical registries data, 1975-2018, linked with National Death Index mortality data.

Participants

All women who registered for fertility treatment at Monash IVF (Melbourne, Victoria), 1 January 1975 - 1 January 2014, followed until 31 December 2018.

Main outcome measures

Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) for all-cause and CVD mortality, for women who did or did not undergo fertility treatment; SMRs stratified by area-level socio-economic disadvantage (SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage [IRSD]) and (

SUBMITTER: Yiallourou SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9827840 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature