The health burden of escalating overweight and obese adults is well documented in the medical literature as well as well communicated to the public. Attention is commonly focused on the association of obesity with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Although the problems with obesity and infertility are as well documented they aren’t as well known. Infertility caused by obesity reduces the ability of both men and women to conceive a child spontaneously or without medical intervention.

Infertility caused by obesity is usually defined by a woman who has 30% or greater of her weight made up of fat tissue. While the rates of US citizens who are overweight and obese are rising so also are the infertility rates. They do not always correlate completely but obesity and infertility appear to be linked.

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