Table 2. Association between BMI and infertility in women aged 20–46 years.
| Variables | Fertile matched control (n = 3,944) | Infertile womena (n = 986) | Women with primary infertilitya (n = 643) | Women with secondary infertilitya (n = 313) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | No. | OR (95% CI)b | No. | OR (95% CI)b | No. | OR (95% CI)b | ||
| BMI, kg/m2 | ||||||||
| < 18.5 | 164 | 103 | 1.35 (1.03–1.77) | 67 | 1.34 (0.97–1.83) | 33 | 1.39 (0.92–2.09) | |
| 18.5–25 | 1,648 | 715 | Ref | 480 | Ref | 231 | Ref | |
| ≥ 25 | 207 | 148 | 2.06 (1.61–2.64) | 96 | 2.26 (1.70–3.01) | 49 | 1.77 (1.22–2.58) | |
BMI = body mass index, OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval.
aFertile matched control was selected from women aged 20–46 who participated in the National Survey on Fertility and Family Health and Welfare in 2009 & 2012 in the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs.
bOR was calculated using stratified age group, and adjusted for education in conditional logistic regression model.