Not just bad for the heart, high blood cholesterol levels may also cause the couple lost the chance to have children.
Scientists in Health Research Institute, the u.s. Government has just discovered, women who have high blood fat levels difficult pregnancy than women who have normal blood fat levels. If both spouses have high blood cholesterol levels, the opportunity to have their baby lower.
High blood cholesterol levels cause women hard to conceive.
The scientists who conducted the study with 401 young couples trying to have children. In this number there is no case suffer fertility problems and all women aged from 18 to 44. After one year of follow-up, 347 women were pregnant, while 54 other women still have not succeeded.
Blood samples of the couple has not conceived to be were associated with the concentration of cholesterol in the blood.
Dr. Enrique Schisterman, members of the research team, said: "we have long known that high blood cholesterol levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. But this time, our data shows that cholesterol in the blood not only causes heart disease, but also reduce the chance of having the children of married couples ".
From the results of the study, Dr. Schisterman recommends couples can improve the chance of birth by checking the concentration of cholesterol in the blood and ensure this parameters in the normal range. He said that young people taking drugs can reduce blood cholesterol in order to maximize the opportunity.
Unclear why the concentration of cholesterol in the blood affect fertility, but this compound is very important to the process of synthesizing the hormone oestrogen and type of sex as testosterone.=