Publications by authors named "Aileen Portugal"
Infertility can affect all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Barriers to quality fertility care include access, financial limitations, education, and social stigmas. Although racial disparities in outcomes of assisted reproductive technology can be largely attributed to the influences of systemic racism (not race), we can make changes to improve equity of care.
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- The study aimed to assess how often and why women aged 35 and older were turned down for in vitro fertilization using their own eggs (IVF-AO) at US fertility clinics between 2015 and 2020.
- Out of 8,660 women surveyed, 4.8% reported they were previously declined for IVF-AO, with factors like older age, lower income, and specific infertility diagnoses linked to higher odds of being declined.
- The findings suggest that certain educational backgrounds and types of infertility made women less likely to be declined, indicating that further research is needed to evaluate the appropriateness of treatment refusals and their outcomes.