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Can being overweight cause infertility? i am 5 feet and weight about 180. i am eating right and exercising to try to reverse that and feel better ifso

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Dr. Brendan Rice answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Small possibility: Congratulations for exercising and eating right! that will help with all kinds of health issues. According to the american society for reproductive medicine, approximately 6% of infertility is caused by being overweight (and 6% is caused by being underweight. The other 88% has other causes (or multiple ones). So, certainly keep doing what you are doing, but there may be other factors at work.

Answered 4/25/2014

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