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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of study population presented by blastulation success

From: What we learned from extended culture of ‘rejected’ day-3 cleavage stage embryos: a prospective cohort study

Variable

Reached blastulation

P-value

Yes

No

Maternal age, years (mean ± SD)

31.6 ± 5.7

31.2 ± 5.6

0.4

Maternal BMI (mean ± SD)

24.7 ± 4.3

24.4 ± 4.5

0.6

Maternal smoking

13.3%

9.7%

0.4

Maternal additional medical condition

5.0%

16.4%

0.03

Day-3 FSH, IU/L (mean ± SD)

6.6 ± 3.1

6.9 ± 2.9

0.3

Post-wash total motile sperm count, millions (mean ± SD)

4.9 ± 5.6

5.4 ± 9.4

0.5

Infertility duration, years (mean ± SD)

2.3 ± 1.8

2.7 ± 2.0

0.06

Embryo day-3 grade, (mean ± SD)

1.73 ± 0.4

1.49 ± 0.5

<0.01

  1. SD standard deviation