Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health (Jan 2008)

Obesity and Time to Conception

  • Susan Richman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4137/cmrh.s869
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1

Abstract

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Objective To examine the association between body mass index and time to conception. Methods Secondary data analysis of The Asthma in Pregnancy Study, a Prospective cohort of 2205 women assembled from April 1997-June 2000. Results Time to conception in women not on contraception, by BMI category, did not show a significant difference among the groups, p = 0.81 for test of equality over the strata. Conclusions No association between time to conception and BMI was demonstrated in these data.