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Table 2.

Fertilization rate, cleavage rate, embryo quality and pregnancy rate in the three groups of the study

	Group I	Group II	Group III	P
No of cases	18	30	18
No of oocytes	11.9 ± 7.5^a	9.6 ± 4.2^ab	6.1 ± 3.9^b	<0.04
No of MII oocytes	9.5 ± 5.5^a	8.0 ± 3.6^a	5.2 ± 3.7^b	<0.01
Fertilization rate	0.82 ± 0.16	0.70 ± 0.19	0.85 ± 0.19	NS
Cleavage rate	0.98 ± 0.06	0.96 ± 0.11	0.97 ± 0.12	NS
No. of embryos	7.2 ± 4.2^a	5.6 ± 3.3^a	4.0 ± 2.9^b	<0.04
No. of transferred embryos	2.5 ± 0.8	2.9 ± 0.7	2.5 ± 1.1	NS
Embryo quality:
No of blastomeres	2.9 ± 1.0	3.4 ± 1.6	3.2 ± 1.4	NS
Fragmentation	1.4 ± 0.7	1.1 ± 0.3	1.2 ± 0.4	NS
Clinical implantation rate	31% (14/45)^a	9% (8/87)^b	2% (1/44)^b	<0.001
Clinical pregnancy rate	61% (11/18)^a	24% (8/33)^b	5% (1/18)^b	<0.001

Different superscripts ^a and ^b indicates significant statistical difference (P < 0.05, using Bonferroni multiple comparison test and Z-test for two proportions) whereas similar superscript indicates non-significance