Environmental Factors Could Increase Need for IVF Treatments

September 28th, 2009 at 10:16 am Posted by The Dean
Dear Students

finalinvologo-verysmall5An interesting report from Denmark this morning suggests that women working in particular industries may be more likely to receive infertility treatment than others. The National Research Centre of the Working Environment (NRCWE) in Denmark says that female plastics workers are 20% more likely than others to receive fertility treatments. Although specific chemicals or other indicators have not been identified, the NRCWE suggests that the many chemicals used in the plastics industries may affect a female worker’s ability to become pregnant.

As a result, Denmark’s infertile population could be affected with some 3,000 women working in the plastics industry alone. Another article suggests that there’s many other occupations are also subjected to environmental factors which affect infertility. This list includes pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, medial workers, x-ray technicians, dry cleaning personnel, flight attendants, agricultural workers, pottery manufacturers and many others in industrial and even office settings.

While infertility affects 1 out of 6 couples in the United States, countries like Ireland, who has an infertility rate over 10%, has also been in infertility news lately. There, the Women’s Health Council has called for more information to be made available on infertility treatments and their success rates. This organization also wants more legislation put in place to oversee the country’s 10 private IVF clinics.

The Women’s Health Council reports that Irish couples have an above average infertility rate of about 16%. Since this is higher than usual, many more couples need IVF options and access to information about the treatments and their effectiveness.

The article for the Irish Times also suggests that infertile couples in countries that tend to have large families often “feel exluded…and isolated” by their inability to have children naturally. In Ireland, as in other predominantly Christian nations, IVF is considered taboo when it comes to the protection and storage of embryos.

As The Dean has told the CollegeStock Community, $IVOB‘s INVO procedure does not involve the production of excess embryos so there’s no need to freeze and store embryos for any period of time. And since $IVOB‘s INVOcell treatment allows conception to take place inside the woman’s body, The Dean believes $IVOB could become the preferred infertility treatment in nation’s with IVF religious concerns.

The Dean thinks this is also a positive for $IVOB‘s INVO procedure because the freezing of embryos reduces the success rate of IVF procedures. In fact, the success rate in Ireland for IVF from a “fresh cycle” is 21%, whereas procedures using frozen embryos has a significantly smaller rate of success of 11%.

$IVOB‘s management team just attended the Colombia Congress of International Fertility and Reproduction conference last week and will be looking to further spread the word about their INVOcell device and INVO procedure next week in South Africa. The Dean believes $IVOB still has a lot to offer the infertility treatment market and their shareholders.

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Happy Trading, The Dean



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