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Prayer May Influence In Vitro Fertilization Success.(Brief Article)
2001 OCT 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prayer seems to almost double the success rate of in vitro fertilization procedures that lead to pregnancy, according to surprising results from a study carefully designed to eliminate bias.
The controversial findings, published in the September 2001 issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, reveal that a group of women who had people praying for them had a 50% pregnancy rate compared with a 26% rate in the group of women who did not have people praying for them. None of the women undergoing the IVF procedures knew about the praying.
The researchers acknowledge the results seem incredible and say unknown biological factors may be playing a role in the difference between the two groups. But they decided to go public with the results in the hope that other scientists may carry out studies to determine if the findings are reproducible and, if so, what factors might be responsible for the improved success rate in the group of women who had people praying for them.
"We could have ignored the findings, but that would not help to advance the field," says Dr. Rogerio Lobo, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and lead author of the study.
"We are putting the results out there hoping to provoke discussion and see if anything can be learned from it. We would like to understand the biological or other phenomena that led to this almost doubling of the pregnancy rate."
The study, which had several safeguards in place to eliminate bias, involved 199 women planning in vitro fertilization and embryo transfers at the Cha Hospital in Seoul, Korea, between December 1998 and March 1999. A statistician randomly assigned the prospective mothers to either a prayer group (100 women) or a nonprayer group (99). Besides the women, the physicians and medical personnel caring for the women did not know a study of prayer was ongoing.
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