Beware women! Asthma lead to infertility in women
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 15-02-2018
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The researchers examined data from the international Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) study, which recruited over 5,000 women expecting their first babies in the early stages of pregnancy. Women were asked if they had been diagnosed with asthma and, if so, which medicines they had used. They were also asked how long it had taken them to become pregnant.
More than 10% of women in the study said they had asthma and, overall, these women took longer to get pregnant. When researchers separated this group according to the types of asthma treatments they were using, they found no difference in fertility between women using long-acting asthma treatments and women without asthma.