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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 23-28 |
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Association of body mass index (BMI) and sub-fertility among young women in Karachi, Pakistan
Mubashir Zafar
Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdul Rehman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, KSA
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Mubashir Zafar
Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, Imamm Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam
KSA
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/fsr.fsr_29_19
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Objective: The aim of the study is to determine the association of body mass index (BMI) with sub-fertility among young women in Karachi Pakistan. Methods: It is a case control study in which 284 participants were selected through simple random sampling technique and 142 divided into cases and control group. Cases were nulliparous women who were not able to conceive after 24 months of unprotected intercourse and controls were primigravida women. Validated questionnaire was given to patients, height and weight was measured and BMI was calculated. Odds ratio (OR) was calculated with logistic regression. Results: Mean age of the study participants were (25.3 years standard deviation ± 2.5). After adjustment of the covariates, women with high BMI (BMI 30 and above) were more than four times {OR 4.20 (95% confidence interval, CI, 1.59–10.14)} and women with BMI 25 to 29.9 were more than one times sub-fertile {OR 1.19 (CI 0.45–3.13)} compared to normal (BMI 20.0–22.4). The women with less frequency of intercourse (1–2 times/week) were more than three times {OR 3.73 (CI 1.75–7.94)} were sub-fertile. Conclusion: There is need for inventions to control BMI which increase fertility level among women. Nutritional modification requires to counter infertility because obese women require higher doses of medication and produce fewer follicles. |
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