Cardiovascular disease hospitalizations among women who undergo fertility treatment
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Rombauts, L
Da Silva Costa, F
Rolnik, DL
Haregu, T
Carrington, M
Magliano, DJ
Yiallourou, SR
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Research question: Are women who receive fertility treatment at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) hospitalization compared with women who do not? Design: A retrospective cohort study of all women registered for fertility treatment at Monash IVF between 1998 and 2014. This cohort was linked to the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset, which contains records of all hospital admissions in the Australian state of Victoria. Age- and Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD)-adjusted relative risks of CVD hospitalization for women who did or did not undergo fertility treatment were determined using Poisson regression. Risks were calculated overall by CVD subtype and stratified by area-based social disadvantage using IRSD fifths, number of stimulated cycles and mean oocytes per cycle. Results: Of 27,262 women registered for fertility treatment, 24,131 underwent treatment and 3131 did not. No significant difference was found in risk of CVD hospitalization between treated and untreated women overall (adjusted RR 0.93, 95% 0.82 to 1.05) or by CVD subtype. The admission risk for CVD was significantly lower in treated women who had a mean of fewer than five oocytes per cycle (adjusted RR 0.80, 95% CI 0.70 to 0.92) compared with untreated women. Treated women residing in areas within the second IRSD fifth were less likely to be hospitalized for CVD compared with untreated women (age-adjusted RR 0.66, 95% CI 0.49 to 0.89). Conclusions: Fertility treatment is not associated with increased risk of CVD hospitalization. Lower risk among some subgroups of treated women may be explained by social disadvantage.
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online
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49
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Reproductive medicine
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Tomic, D; Rombauts, L; Da Silva Costa, F; Rolnik, DL; Haregu, T; Carrington, M; Magliano, DJ; Yiallourou, SR, Cardiovascular disease hospitalizations among women who undergo fertility treatment, Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 2024, 49 (1), pp. 103812