Thousands of Australian women given false fertility warning

Thousands of women in Australia may give a false warning about the state of their fertility after an investigation found much common tests egg reserves.The Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) test or hourglass is used to measure underestimates the ovarian reserve and is popular in Australia for more than ten years, with women trying to assess their fertility.

Team medical director of Genea fertility, Mark Bowman, said health experts have always warned that women, while the AMH test can indicate ovarian reserve, there has been a security breach is considering possible fertility.While number of eggs a woman has left is important for its ability to conception, so different is the quality of the eggs, 'Professor Bowman said.Since 2011 AMH testing is Beckman Coulter generation (Gen) Test II, but in July 2013, an attempt to revise the protocol after many false low readings.We, along with other clinics fertility, he realized that some of the lowest rates were once again significantly As expected, control protocol was evaluated and revised in July 2013. '2012-2015 study conducted by scientists and doctors Gene published in the latest issue of the Journal of assisted reproduction and protocol Geneticscompared original study with the revised protocol and found that the original protocol underestimate the important results, on average, 68 research cent.In AMH levels were measured in 492 women with natural conception in age from 20 to 44 years the original and modified test for Gen II. Comparison find the original protocol significantly underestimate the AMH levels.In all samples with detectable levels of AMH, as amended protocol gave a higher concentration compared to the original protocol, resizing the range of from 3.4 to 283.3 percent (average 68.0 percent). This study is the first to publish a series of references to natural conception based AMH levels.While damaged and replaced Genea protocol uses a new protocol, fully automated, this is the first study to examine the impact on the population of Australia. This shows that many of these thousands of women in Australia who performed the test AMH between 2011 and mid-2013 were potentially give falsely low results.