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. 2015 Feb 21;32(4):551–555. doi: 10.1007/s10815-015-0441-2

Table 2.

Independent predictors of live birth (LB) following IVF. Associations expressed as odds ratio (OR) and 95 % confidence interval (CI)

Variables Unadjusted OR
(95 % CI)
P-value Adjusted OR
(95 % CI)
P-value
Age (years) 0.9 (0.88–0.95) <0.01 0.9 (0.82–0.92) <0.0001
BMI (kg/m2) 1.0 (0.97–1.04) 0.82 1.0 (0.95–1.03) 0.71
Blood type B vs. A 1.5 (0.95–2.45) 0.08 2.2 (1.15–4.11) 0.02
Blood type AB vs. A 1.3 (0.60–2.86) 0.5 2.0 (0.69–5.6) 0.21
Blood type O vs. A 0.9 (0.64–1.32) 0.7 1.2 (0.74–2.03) 0.43
Endometrial thickness (mm) 1.1 (1.02–1.10) <0.01 1.0 (0.92–1.04) 0.46
Gonadotropin dose (IU) 1.0 (0.99–0.99) <0.01 1.0 (0.99–1.00) 0.33
# Embryos transferred 1.3 (1.14–1.57) <0.01 1.9 (1.46–2.42) <0.01
Blastocyst transfer (Yes) 1.9 (1.22–3.01) <0.01 2.1 (1.03–3.85) 0.04
First attempt at IVF vs. repeat 1.43 (0.99–2.0) 0.05 1.5 (0.91–2.36) 0.12

Model Sensitivity: 73 %

p-values that are significant at < 0.05 are bolded