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 delaying childbearing:

Related Medical Abstracts - Click on the paper title:-


women's health



Please click on the required question.

Women's Health

Thank you for choosing to visit us.


This is the personal website of David A Viniker MD FRCOG, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Whipps Cross University Hospital, London - Specialist Interests - Reproductive Medicine including Infertility, PCOS, PMS, Menopause and HRT.

I do hope that you find the answers to your women's health questions in the patient information and medical advice provided.





Keyword SEO Pro



Single Page

SEO Videos
Website Design
SEO - Search Engine Optimisation