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Study of Taiwanese women; sleep problems may contribute to infertility

The research also showed a strikingly low number of Taiwanese women developed infertility problems

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/12/17
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A 10 year longitudinal study on Taiwanese women has revealed that infertility presents a likely correlation with sleep disorders.

The study was conducted by a team researchers led by Dr. I-Duo Wang of the Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center in Taipei.

It was conducted over the years 2000 to 2010 on 16,718 women that had been recently diagnosed with sleep disorders before the start of the research. For comparison, a group of 33,436 women who did not have sleeping problems were also monitored for the research.

The average age of women at the start of the study was 35 years old, with the minimum age of participants being 20, and the oldest being 45, according to the research paper.
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