A real-world simulation of the fertility trend among women with endometriosis in Italy
This simulation modeled Italian fertility trends, finding treated women with endometriosis have reduced fertility potential compared to untreated women.
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The paper modeled age-specific fertility trends in Italy for women with endometriosis versus women without endometriosis using a probabilistic simulation based on demographic and fertility-related data from 2020–2023. It combined Italian estimates of actual pregnancy desire, infertility rates, and ART outcomes with literature-based estimates of infertility in endometriotic patients and the natural fertility decline with age, and also incorporated age at endometriosis diagnosis and reported impacts of endometriosis treatments on fertility, while noting that some inputs (treatment/infertility parameters) were estimated from the scientific literature rather than directly measured from the Italian population. The key finding was that treated endometriotic patients had a reduced fertility potential compared with untreated endometriotic patients and with women without endometriosis. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it simulates fertility trends in Italian women with endometriosis and attributes the observed fertility decline primarily to iatrogenic effects of endometriosis care.
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