date:Jul 05, 2012
Researchers from the Fertility Clinic of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, who studied nearly 4,000 IVF and ICSI patients, described the adverse impact of coffee consumption as comparable to the detrimental effect of smoking.
Results showed that the consumption of five or more cups of coffee a day reduced the clinical pregnancy rate by 50% and the live birth rate by 40%.
Although we were not surprised that coffee consumption appears to affect pregnancy rates in IVF, we were surprised at t