{"id":1656,"date":"2013-08-16T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2013-08-16T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:45:40","slug":"us-infertility-rates-drop-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/08\/16\/1656\/","title":{"rendered":"US Infertility Rates Drop Slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has released a new <a title=\"Infertility and Impaired Fecundity in the United States, 1982\u20132010: Data From the National Survey of Family Growth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr067.pdf\">report<\/a> that presents nationally representative estimates and trends for infertility and impaired fecundity\u2014two measures of fertility\u00a0problems\u2014among women aged 15\u201344 in the United States. Data are also presented on a measure of infertility among men aged 15\u201344.<\/p>\n<p>Infertility is defined as a\u00a0lack of pregnancy in the 12 months\u00a0prior to survey, despite having had\u00a0unprotected sexual intercourse in each\u00a0of those months with the same husband\u00a0or partner. Impaired fecundity is defined\u00a0as physical difficulty in either getting\u00a0pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to live\u00a0birth.<\/p>\n<p>NCHS data are used to monitor\u00a0the prevalence and correlates of\u00a0infertility and to evaluate the use,\u00a0efficacy, and safety of infertility services\u00a0and treatments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The percentage of married women aged 15\u201344 who were infertile fell from 8.5% in 1982 (2.4 million women) to 6.0% (1.5 million) in 2006\u20132010.<\/li>\n<li>Impaired fecundity (trouble getting pregnant) among married women aged 15\u201344 increased from 11% in 1982 to 15% in 2002, but decreased to 12% in 2006\u20132010. Among all women, 11% had impaired fecundity in 2006\u20132010.<\/li>\n<li>Both infertility and impaired fecundity remain closely associated with age for nulliparous (childless) women. Among married, childless women aged 35\u201344, the percentage infertile declined from 44% in 1982 to 27% in 2006\u20132010, reflecting greater delays in childbearing over this period.<\/li>\n<li>Among married women in 2006\u20132010, non-Hispanic black women were more likely to be infertile than non-Hispanic white women.<\/li>\n<li>Some form of infertility (either subfertility or nonsurgical sterility) was reported by 9.4% of men aged 15\u201344 and 12% of men aged 25\u201344 in 2006\u20132010, similar to levels seen in 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has released a new report that presents nationally representative estimates and trends for infertility and impaired fecundity\u2014two measures of fertility\u00a0problems\u2014among women aged 15\u201344 in the United States. Data are also presented on a measure of infertility among men aged 15\u201344. Infertility is defined as a\u00a0lack of pregnancy in the 12 months\u00a0prior to survey, despite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62364,63698],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}