Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are less likely to have a live birth following assisted reproduction technology (ART) treatment than women without RA (adjusted OR 0.78; 95% CI 0.65–0.92) according to a nationwide study that analysed data from the Danish ART registry (1,149 and 198,941 embryo transfers in women with and without RA, respectively). Women with RA had a reduced chance of a biochemical pregnancy and a clinical pregnancy after embryo transfer, suggesting a reduced likelihood of embryo implantation.
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Nørgård, B. M. et al. Decreased chance of a live born child in women with rheumatoid arthritis after assisted reproduction treatment: a nationwide cohort study. Ann. Rheum. Dis. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214619 (2019)
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McHugh, J. Assisted reproduction less effective in RA. Nat Rev Rheumatol 15, 126 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-019-0178-x
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