Fecundity and infertility in the United States: incidence and trends.

The authors contrast the conclusions of their own report on trends in infertility in the United States with those of E. Greenhall and M. Vessey concerning Great Britain. They conclude that "physicians providing infertility services do not have more patients due to an epidemic of infertility because there is no epidemic. There are more infertility patients because the huge Baby Boom generation (born 1946 to 1964) is now 27 to 45 years old and they are delaying childbearing into the ages where they are more likely to become infertile." The article by E. Greenhall and M. Vessey was published in Fertility and Sterility Vol. 54 No. 6 Dec 1990 pp. 978-83. (EXCERPT)