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New Treatment Might Help Older Women Get Pregnant - 06/12/2007
A new treatment expected to be available with in the next decade might be able to help women conceive at an age thought to be beyond the child-bearing stage, scientists stay.
Scientists have located a protein that they believe could be developed into injection or pill form that would increase the life of eggs in the ovaries, allowing women to have children later on in life.
A woman's fertility peaks between the ages of 20 to 24 and stays relatively constant in her early thirties, after which it begins to decline. Between the ages of 30 to 35, a woman's fertility is 15 to 20% below maximum fertility levels, while it is 50% below maximum levels between 35 and 39 years of age. When a woman is 40 to 45 years old, her fertility levels drop 50 to 95%.
Also, at age 16, a woman has 400 000 eggs while she has virtually none left by the time she is 46 years old.
No information has as of yet been released with regard to the name of the identified protein and further study details have yet to be made public.
Source: MedIndia.com
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