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What is the effect of age on fertility?

Fertility declines with advancing female age. The prevalence of infertility reaches 25% in women in their late thirties and there is a rapid decline of fertility after the age of forty. There is also evidence of declining fertility with age in the male partner.

There is evidence that complications in pregnancy and childbirth increase with advancing maternal age.

The following graph from Australia shows evidence that women are delayingchildbearing:

The following graph shows the chance of conceiving according to female age in a donor insemination program


Note that this graph doesnot specify the number of treatment cycles; the average number of treatment cycles was 6, and the range was 1 to 41

Hum Reprod. 2001 Nov;16(11):2298-304.

Results of 6139 artificial insemination cycles with donor spermatozoa.
Botchan A ,Hauser R, Gamzu R, Yogev L, Paz G, Yavetz H.

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