Reports from Yonsei University College of Medicine Highlight Recent Findings in Infertility (Socioeconomic Status and Successful Delivery after an Infertility Diagnosis: a Nationwide Health Insurance Cohort Study in Korea Conducted from 2005 to …)

2020 OCT 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Reproductive Diseases and Conditions - Infertility. According to news reporting out of Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The global disease burden of infertility is rising and accessibility to infertility treatments and assisted reproduction is a challenging issue. Therefore, we investigated characteristics of successful delivery after an infertility diagnosis among infertile women.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Yonsei University College of Medicine, “We designed a retrospective cohort study with the main outcome measure of a delivery medical record after the initial diagnosis of infertility. A total of 10,108 women patients who were diagnosed with infertility between 2005 to 2013 in the National Health Insurance Cooperation Cohort Database of Korea were enrolled. The adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for subsequent delivery were estimated by applying a Cox proportional-hazard regression model. Approximately 55% of infertile women who reported infertility had a delivery eventually. Infertile women who are aged between 30 to 39 (HR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.75-0.84), in low income level (HR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.71-0.84), or diagnosed with diabetes (HR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.60-0.96) were less likely to report a delivery. These findings highlight demographic, socioeconomic, and medical characteristics of reporting a consequent delivery. Although many previous articles reported an association between socioeconomic status and receiving medical evaluation, there were few studies regarding successful delivery after an infertility diagnosis across socioeconomic status.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Thus, the maintaining of support for low socioeconomic status infertile women and their family should be considered after the infertility diagnosis in aspects of financial and social approaches.”

For more information on this research see: Socioeconomic Status and Successful Delivery after an Infertility Diagnosis: a Nationwide Health Insurance Cohort Study in Korea Conducted from 2005 to 2013. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 2020;35(39).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Sang Gyu Lee, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Jaeyong Shin, Eun Cheol Park and Jin Young Nam.

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