Fertility Tie to Menstrual Cycle Characteristics
An interesting study reported that certain characteristics of a woman’s menstrual cycle may confer increased fertility, while others may lead to a greater risk of miscarriage on women reproduction health.
This new study been investigated by Dr. Chanley M. Small of Emory University in Atlanta and colleagues followed 470 women for 1 year or the end of a pregnancy. They do investigation whether the length of a woman’s cycle and her menstrual bleed are related to fertility and pregnancy outcome.
All of those women kept diaries on their menstrual cycles and collected urine samples for at least 2 days during each cycle. As the result is 38% of the women became pregnant during the course of the study, with a total of 207 pregnancies and 30% of the pregnancies ended in miscarriage, as reported in the Epidemiology journal. Read more!