Infertility

The most recent National Survey of Family Growth states that infertility affects 7.3 million people in the United States alone. This figure represents 12 percent of women of childbearing age, or one in eight couples. According to Lisa Hasty, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Piedmont Hospital, “Infertility is the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse, or six months if the woman is over age 35.” Infertility is also the inability to carry a pregnancy to live birth. It is a disease that results in the abnormal functioning of the male or female reproductive system.

Both the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), World Health Organization (WHO) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recognize infertility as a disease.

Learn more about infertility, including treatment options here.

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