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Ovarian reserve tests aren’t a good predictor of fertility, study finds

Increasingly popular ovarian reserve tests run the risk of giving women an inaccurate impression of their future chances of having children.

Tests that measure a woman’s “ovarian reserve” to estimate how many more years of fertility she has have grown increasingly popular. But a new study finds that levels of the hormones commonly tested aren’t tied to lower chances of getting pregnant.

The new research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at three

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