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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Predictive value of the time interval between embryo loading and transfer for IVF/ICSI success: a prospective cohort study

 

All patients

Patients with rigid catheter

Patients with soft catheter

p

Number of patients

410

336

74

-

Age (years)a

31.7 ± 5.3

31.7 ± 5.2

31.7 ± 5.5

0.9

Body mass index (kg/m2)a

24.6 ± 5.5

24.6 ± 5.6

24.0 ± 5.5

0.4

Tubal factorb

75 (18.3)

60 (17.9)

15 (20.3)

0.6

Male factorb

285 (69.5)

229 (68.2)

56 (75.7)

0.2

Endometriosisb

69 (16.8)

58 (17.3)

11 (14.9)

0.6

Polycystic ovary syndromeb

44 (10.7)

34 (10.1)

10 (13.5)

0.4

Idiopathic infertilityb

9 (2.2)

5 (1.5)

4 (5.4)

0.06

Number of retrieved oocytesa

4.8 ± 3.3

4.5 ± 3.1

5.0 ± 3.5

0.6

Length of stimulation (days)a

11 (10–12)

11 (10–12)

11 (10–12)

0.9

ICSIb

145 (35.4)

112 (33.3)

30 (40.5)

0.2

Ongoing pregnancy rateb

112 (27.3)

84 (25.0)

28 (37.8)

0.02

Live birth rateb

98 (23.9)

64 (19.0)

24 (32.4)

0.01

  1. Data are provided as ameans ± standard deviation and b n (%)