Table 2 Clinical characteristics of couples undergoing IVF/ICSI and IUI with common factors.

From: Internal validation and comparison of predictive models to determine success rate of infertility treatments: a retrospective study of 2485 cycles

Characteristic

Successful (IVF/ICSI) (N = 240)

Successful (IUI) (N = 216)

p value

Age

 Female

31.3 ± 5.5

28.8 ± 5.2

 < 0.001a*

 Male

35.4 ± 9.9

32.4 ± 5.0

0.018 a*

 AFC

10.1 ± 5.4

11.58 ± 5.5

0.141 a

 FSH (mIU/ml)

9.2 ± 4.4

6.3 ± 3.3

0.005 a*

Addiction

 Non

139 (57.96%)

202 (93.51%)

0.213c

 Smoke

33 (13.75%)

4 (1.85%)

 

 Alcohol

15 (6.2%)

1 (0.46%)

 

 Narcotic

53 (22.9%)

7 (3.24%)

 
  

2 (0.92%)

 

Diagnosis

  

0.0076c*

 Male Factor

100 (41.66%)

42 (19.44%)

 

 Female Factor

70 (29.1%)

9 (4.16%)

 

 Unexplained

22 (9.1%)

53 (24.53%)

 

 Mix

48 (20%)

51 (23.67%)

 

Duration of Infertility (year)

6.1 ± 4.7

3.52 ± 2.67

0.0074 a*

Endometrial Thickness (mm)

9.0 ± 1.8

6.95 ± 2.19

 

Follicle Number

15.3 ± 22.3

1.81 ± 1.22

 < 0.001 a*

Infertility

  

0.09

 Primary

185 (77.08%)

147 (68.05%)

 

 Secondary

55 (22.9%)

69 (31.9%)

 

Sperm

 Count

54.0 ± 49.8

77.9 ± 46.0

0.0064a*

 Motility

35.2 ± 22.8

39.8 ± 21.0

0.0049 a*

 Morphology

32.3 ± 22.8

50.3 ± 14.5

0.0051 a*

 Total Gonadotropin Dose

32.9 ± 13.7

4.9 ± 3.8

0.027 a*

Treatment Cycle Number

 Cycle1

180 (75%)

184 (85.18%)

0.074

 Cycle 2

49 (20.4%)

26 (12.03%)

 

 Cycle 3

11 (4.5%)

6 (2.7%)

 

BMI

25.4 ± 4.4

25.6 ± 3.7

0.03 a*

  1. AFC, Antral Follicle Count; FSH, Follicle Stimulating Hormone; BMI, Body Mass Index, Mean ± Standard Division for continues and N (%), percent of the number of couples for categorical variables are presented.
  2. *Significant features (p value < 0.05).
  3. aExamined via Student's t test.
  4. bExamined via Fisher's exact test.
  5. cExamined via Chi-square test.
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