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Ethnic group and reason for assisted reproductive technology failure : analysis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority registry data from 2017 to 2018

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Henderson, Ian, Lacey, Lauren, Akhtar, Muhammad Ahsan and Quenby, Siobhan (2023) Ethnic group and reason for assisted reproductive technology failure : analysis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority registry data from 2017 to 2018. Fertility and Sterility, 119 (2). pp. 241-249. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.11.005 ISSN 0015-0282.

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Abstract

Objective:
To understand how the risk of different assisted reproductive technology (ART) failure types varies by ethnic group and explore the role of mediation by maternal age and suspected etiology.

Design:
An observational study of 48,750 women who undertook treatment with ART in the United Kingdom between January 2017 and December 2018.

Setting:
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority national ART registry of the United Kingdom.

Patient(s):
Women who commenced a first cycle of ART for the purpose of primary fresh embryo transfer using their own oocytes were included.

Intervention(s):
Maternal ethnic group.

Main Outcome Measure(s):
The ART failure types were modeled on the maternal ethnic group using the Poisson regression to produce relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals. The potential indirect effects of maternal age and etiology of subfertility were estimated, and the RRs with 95% confidence intervals were produced.

Result(s):
Black women were at greater risk of treatment failure with respect to live birth than women who were white: cycle cancellation, RR of 2.15 (1.78–2.62); failed fertilization, RR of 2.36 (1.90–2.93); unintended freeze-all, RR of 1.71 (1.43–2.05); failed implantation, RR of 1.23 (1.12–1.34); and pregnancy loss, RR of 1.38 (1.15–1.64). Women who were Asian were at moderately increased risk: RRs of 1.31 (1.17–1.47), 1.60 (1.42–1.80), 1.25 (1.14–1.38), 1.11 (1.07–1.16), and 1.13 (1.03–1.23), across the same outcomes, respectively. Inequality may have been reduced had women of all ethnicities initiated treatment at the same age.

Conclusion(s):
Black women were at greatest risk of all failure types, and women who were Asian were at intermediate risk compared with women who were white. Some of the risks among women who were black may be mediated by maternal age.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Social medicine, Ethnicity -- Health aspects -- Research, Health status indicators, Human reproductive technology, Epidemiology
Journal or Publication Title: Fertility and Sterility
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
ISSN: 0015-0282
Official Date: 1 February 2023
Dates:
DateEvent
1 February 2023Published
9 November 2022Available
3 November 2022Accepted
Volume: 119
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 241-249
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.11.005
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 10 March 2023
Date of first compliant Open Access: 10 March 2023
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDTommy's Baby Charityhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000306
UNSPECIFIEDWarwick Medical Schoolhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004443

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