{"id":547,"date":"2007-03-07T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T21:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=547"},"modified":"2007-03-07T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T21:48:24","slug":"more-lovely-numbers-from-the-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"More Lovely Numbers &#8211; From the CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally found <i>some<\/i> data regarding the different success rates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ART\/ART2004\/section2_questions.htm\">here from the CDC<\/a> (section C). What I have not found however is anything showing the differences between day 3 and day 5 transfers while comparing the same number of embryos transferred. These are just overall numbers, so you don&#8217;t know if the different success rates are because people are transferrring more or less embryos or not.<\/p>\n<p>The page linked to contains data regarding<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ART\/ART2004\/section2c.htm#f29\">How many embryos are transferred<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ART\/ART2004\/section2c.htm#f32\">How many transfers are day 3 and how many are day 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ART\/ART2004\/section2c.htm#f33\">The success rate of day 3 transfers vs day 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ART\/ART2004\/section2c.htm#f34\">How many embryos are transferred on day 3 vs day 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ART\/ART2004\/section2c.htm#f35<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All of the data is from 2004 though. I <i>know<\/i> success rates have changed significantly since then. It is just so hard to find relevent data, since so many factors affect the success rate: the age of the mother; the cause of infertility; the quality of the embryos; the number of embryos transferred; the day of the transfer. So while I&#8217;m able to find data that considers one or two of those factors, I have yet to find any data that takes into consideration all of them. (I know that would be a huge undertaking for any type of researcher, though.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh I should have been an accountain or statistician or something. I can&#8217;t help it, numbers make me giddy. (I&#8217;m a computer programmer instead, LOL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally found some data regarding the different success rates, here from the CDC (section C). What I have not found however is anything showing the differences between day 3 and day 5 transfers while comparing the same number of embryos transferred. These are just overall numbers, so you don&#8217;t know if the different success rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fertility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}