Social inequalities may significantly affect fertility treatment success, study finds
Higher levels of education and income were linked to a better chance of treatment succeeding. Stock image. Photo: PA
Women with doctorates who undergo fertility treatment are more than three times more likely to have a baby compared with those with only primary school education who have the procedure.
Furthermore, women in the highest income group were twice as likely to have a baby after treatment than those in the lowest, according to new research presented to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology annual meeting in Amsterdam.
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