Hi, and welcome to FertilitySpace. The new CDC data has been released for 2021,
that report, on the 2019 IVF cycle success rates
so I thought we would take a look at that and I can suggest some metrics to pay attention to
so that you can get an idea of what IVF success rates would look like for you and for your age.
So the CDC reports success rates for clinics across the United States every year The report always lags by a 2 years because first, you know, for 2019 cycles, they have to wait for the live births to occur
and then the clinic needs time to gather the results, send it to the CDC, and then the CDC needs time to prepare the report.
So for 2021, the most up-to-date success rates are for the year 2019.
The report is available on the CDC's website so I'll link it below and you can head there if you want to download,
it's in a CSV format when it's the preliminary data, you can download that and take a look at the data.
We also have it in a more readable format on the FertilitySpace website.
We put everything into charts so that you can see the national average for the different success rates metrics that they use
and then we also have that for individual clinics as well so that you can compare clinics against the national average
for each of the metrics that we're gonna be talking about.
The CDC stratifies the IVF outcomes by age group
so on the chart you're gonna see 4 age categories.
Women less than 35 years old, women 35 to 37, women 38 to 40, and then women older than 40.
These metrics are for women that used their own eggs for IVF treatment but we're also gonna look at the donor egg success rates a little bit later on.
The first metric we're gonna look at is the Singleton Live Birth rate from all intended retrievals performed in 2019.
So the Singleton Live Birth Rate for women younger than 35 was 47.1%. For women 35 to 37 it was 34.4%.
For women 38 to 40, it was 22.4% and then for women older than 40 it was 7.5%.
So "all intended retrievals" means that for all of 2019, for all of the retrievals started, this is the success rate.
So this is for all women that started stimulation medications for an IVF cycle.
So this does include also a small percentage of patients that started stimulation meds but then
part of the way through, they may have cancelled their cycle due to poor ovarian response,
maybe they weren't responding well to the medications, illness, personal reasons, or maybe no eggs were retrieved.
I still think that even though there's a small percentage of cancelled cycles in here,
it's a really good metric to look at because it's really realistic.
You never know if you're gonna be someone that does have a poor response. Especially if your diagnosis is diminished ovarian reserve.
It's a really realistic way to look at the data to also include cancelled cycles
because you really can't plan in advance for those. You don't know if those are gonna happen.
But if you do want to look at just retrievals where a retrieval was completed, eggs were retrieved,
and then look at the IVF success rates, the CDChas that data available, so you can just check on that metric.
I also think another really helpful metric to look at is what the success rates were for new patients
in 2019 that were starting their first ever IVF cycle.
So if you're a new patient and you're going to be doing your first IVF cycle, this could be a really helpful metric to look at.
Success rates for women doing their first ever IVF cycle who were younger than 35 was 56.7%.
For women 35 to 37, it was 41.9%. For women 38 to 40 it was 26.9%.
And then for women older than 40, it was 9.2%.
And then for embryo transfer success rates, the Singleton Live Birth Rate
for women younger than 35 was 44.4%. For women 35 to 37, it was 40.6%.
For women 38 to 40 it was 36.3% and then for women older than 40 it was 21.4%.
And for the embryo transfer success rates, that includes fresh embryo transfers as well as frozen embryo transfer cycles so FETs.
It's all embryo transfers cycles that occurred in 2019.
Donor Egg IVF Success Rates -
So for IVF cycles using fresh donor eggs that did a fresh transfer, the success rate was 47.1%.
For cycles that used frozen donor eggs with a fresh embryo transfer, it was a 41.7% success rate.
And for a frozen embryo transfer that originated from donor eggs, the success rate was 44.9%.
So, a fresh egg retrieval is where the donor underwent a retrieval on behalf of the patient
and then the eggs were fertilized on the same day. So that's what the fresh egg fresh transfer IVF cycle is.
And then for frozen eggs, typically that was where a frozen donor cohort of eggs was purchased from an egg donor agency
and then the eggs were thawed and then fertilized and then embryos developed.
And then for a frozen embryo transfer, that was just where
an embryo was thawed and transferred and that embryo originated from donor eggs.
You can feel free to download that CSV from the CDC and
check out all of these success rates.
If you'd rather see it in a more easy to read format,
you can head to FertilitySpace and we have all of these metrics in really easy-to-read charts.
So we have the national averages and then we have it for each individual fertility clinic as well
so feel free to check that out.
It's really easy. You just go to our search section of the website
and you can type a doctor name, the clinic name,
or you can just type in you location as well.
Like, you can just type in "Los Angeles" or "Atlanta" and the clinics, the fertility clinics in your area
will come up and you can just check out their metrics.
Ok, that's all we have for today.
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