Is It Harder to Get Pregnant If You’re Obese?
Another obesity and infertility study in Sweden found that even when controlling for other health factors, those women who were obese had much greater fertility problems.
What is obese? The study considered any woman with a body mass index or BMI of over 35 to be obese. If your BMI is between 25 and 29, you are simply overweight. If your BMI is over 40, you are in morbidly obese category.
Although we are not sure exactly of the relationship between obesity and infertility, obesity is also well known to be associated with insulin resistance which is associated with infertility…
