Study of factors contributing to female infertility
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20212340Keywords:
Infertility, Primary infertility, Secondary infertility, PCOSAbstract
Background: Infertility is a global issue in reproductive health. All over the world, infertility is viewed as a social stigma, which causes social, economic and psychological consequences.
Methods: A prospective, observational study was conducted at south central railway hospital, Secunderabad in 100 women aged between 18-40 years with complaints of primary and secondary infertility. We aimed to find the incidence of different causes of infertility in the females attending Gynaecology OPD over a period of 2 years.
Results: Different causes of infertility were studied. In the present study ovarian factors (50%) was the most common factor for infertility followed by tubal factors (22%), uterine factors (20%) and peritoneal factors (19%) respectively.
Conclusions: PCOS was found to be a contributing factor in both primary and secondary infertility, maybe because of increased sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity and the study population being from an urban background.
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