Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health (Jan 2008)
Obesity and Time to Conception
Abstract
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.