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Overweight women 30% more likely to be infertile
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Overweight women are 30 percent more likely to be infertile than women of a normal weight, a Hong Kong expert said in a report published on Monday. The chances of infertility can be up to 170 percent higher than usual among women who are so overweight that they are technically obese, the expert said. Carina Chan of the University of Hong Kong’s department of obstetrics and gynaecology told the South China Morning Post increasing numbers of women were being treated for infertility. The Queen Mary Hospital, the University of Hong Kong’s teaching hospital, admits 1 300 patients a year with infertility problems compared to 300 a year in 1993. "Obesity is one of the factors," Chan said, adding that one in four Hong Kong women is now either overweight or obese. Overweight women are also more likely to have miscarriages, having a 15 percent chance compared with an 11 percent chance among women of normal weight, she said. Levels of obesity have climbed sharply in Hong Kong in the past three decades with experts blaming the switch to a more Western diet, long office hours and sedentary lifestyles. – Sapa-dpa
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Overweight women are 30 percent more likely to be infertile than women of a normal weight, a Hong Kong expert said in a report published on Monday.
saves money because there’s no need for the pill Geez, there is a huge I’m-an-obesity-troll wave going on again or what? Go and sue some fat people for wasting your prescious tax money instead of littering NGs.