What is Infertility?

What is Infertility?

• Infertility: The inability to produce offspring.
• Infertility: The diminished or absent ability to conceive or produce an offspring while sterility is the complete inability to conceive or produce an offspring.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Infertility: the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Infertility: Introduction

Types of Infertility:

Types of Infertility:

• Subfertility - failure to conceive after 12 months of trying
• Male infertility
• Female infertility
• more types...»

Broader types of Infertility:

• Sexual Conditions
• more types...»

How many people get Infertility?

Prevalance of Infertility: 6.1 million people in 1997 (NWHIC); 5.3 million Americans or 9% of reproductive age (NWHIC/American Society for Reproductive Medicine)
Prevalance Rate of Infertility: approx 1 in 44 or 2.24% or 6.1 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Infertility: condition affects about 5.3 million Americans, or 9 percent of the reproductive age population, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. (Source: excerpt from Infertility: NWHIC)

Who gets Infertility?

Gender Profile for Infertility: Almost equally men and women.

How serious is Infertility?

Complications of Infertility: see complications of Infertility

What causes Infertility?

Causes of Infertility: see causes of Infertility
Risk factors for Infertility: see risk factors for Infertility

What are the symptoms of Infertility?

Symptoms of Infertility: see symptoms of Infertility

Complications of Infertility: see complications of Infertility

Infertility: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Infertility.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Infertility.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Infertility: see treatments for Infertility
Research for Infertility: see research for Infertility

Society issues for Infertility

Hospitalization statistics for Infertility: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Infertility:

• 0.13% (16,268) of hospital consultant episodes were for female infertility in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 100% of hospital consultant episodes for female infertility required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 100% of hospital consultant episodes for female infertility were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 1% of hospital consultant episodes for female infertility required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 1.5 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for female infertility in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Organs Affected by Infertility:

sexual organs

Name and Aliases of Infertility

Main name of condition: Infertility

sterility

Sub-fertility Source - Diseases Database

Sterility
Source - WordNet 2.1

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