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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2013 Dec 8;33(10):1738–1749. doi: 10.1002/sim.6050

Table 2.

Evaluation of IVF and Participant Characteristics on IVF Failures in Brigham and Women’s Hospital IVF Study, for Mixed and Transitional Models Assuming Common Covariate Effects on IVF Failure Types

IVF and Participant Characteristics Mixed Model Transitional Model
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
Intercepts
 Implantation failure 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
 Chemical pregnancy 0.21 (0.18, 0.24) 0.23 (0.19, 0.28)
 SAB 0.20 (0.17, 0.24) 0.21 (0.17, 0.27)
Gonadotropin dose 1.26 (1.17, 1.36) 1.27 (1.18, 1.37)
Embryos transferred 0.73 (0.68, 0.78) 0.73 (0.68, 0.78)
Previous livebirth 0.81 (0.69, 0.95) 0.80 (0.68, 0.94)
Down regulation 0.79 (0.67, 0.92) 0.78 (0.66, 0.91)
ICSI 0.99 (0.86, 1.14) 1.00 (0.87, 1.15)
BMI Categories
 < 18.5 1.07 (0.73, 1.56) 1.07 (0.73, 1.57)
 18.5 – 25 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
 25 – 30 1.03 (0.87, 1.22) 1.03 (0.87, 1.22)
 > 30 1.00 (0.80, 1.25) 1.01 (0.80, 1.26)
Age Categories
 < 35 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
 35 – 37 1.09 (0.92, 1.30) 1.09 (0.92, 1.30)
 38 – 40 1.58 (1.31, 1.90) 1.59 (1.32, 1.92)
 > 40 3.42 (2.67, 4.36) 3.49 (2.73, 4.47)

AIC 7679.0 7694.0

IVF=in vitro fertilization; OR=odds ratio; CI=confidence interval; ICSI=intracytoplasmic sperm injection; BMI=body mass index; SAB=spontaneous abortion; AIC=Akaike’s Information Criterion