Can your diet boost your chances of getting pregnant?
NCT ID NCT01093378
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at 400 couples to understand how diet, lifestyle habits like smoking and exercise, and genetics influence fertility. Researchers compared fertile and infertile couples to find nutritional factors that may help or hinder conception. No treatment was given; the goal was to gather information for future guidance.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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400 people
The number who actually took part.
- Start date
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Oct 2009
- Finished
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Jun 2015
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
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Who is studied
Defined population after a screening in out-hospitalized patients in selected investigation sites
- Ages
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18 to 45 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Inclusion Criteria: Common to both infertile and fertile couples: * Couples where both members are over eighteen and at childbearing age (≤38 for women and ≤ 45 for men) * Couples where both members agreed to take part in the study * Couples where both members completed a medical check-up and gave an informed consent. Infertile couples could be included following a medical consultation for infertility * Couples with none of its member facing any comprehension difficulty in oral or written French language * Couples where both members are affiliated to the French NHS \[national health service\] (beneficiary or legal claimant) Specific to fertile couples: \- fertile couples who naturally and spontaneously conceived a or many children with a time to conceive shorter than 12 months. Specific to infertile couples: * Infertile couples (primary, infertility, inability to conceive a child after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse) * Couples where the male partner has sperm parameters compatible with a natural conception * Couples where the female partner does not present anovulation, ovarian insufficiency and or any uterus-tubal pathology Exclusion Criteria: Common to both infertile and fertile couples: * couples where one of the members is under eighteen or not a childbearing age (\>38 for women an \>45 for men) * couples where at least one member refused to give written agreement for the study * couples where at least one member shows any known cardiovascular risk (diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, HBR) * couples where at least one member shows any known cardiovascular pathology, digestive pathology, no good absorptive pathology or a cancer * couples where at least one member faces some difficulty in understanding French language * couples where at least one member is not affiliated with the French NHS (beneficiary or legal claimant) Specific to fertile couples: •Couples where the woman had a miscarriage or medical termination of pregnancy with current partner Specific to infertile couples: * Couples in which it is not the first pregnancy * Couples with the male member showing either: * severe oligozoospermia (\<5 millions/ml) or a confirmed azoospermia (absence of spermatozoid in the ejaculate) * a moderate non idiopathic oligozoospermia (5-20 millions/ml), related to one more of the following factors: 1. toxic (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, drugs with a demonstrated effect on spermatogenesis) 2. infectious 3. anatomic: vasectomy, congenital anomaly (agenesis of vas deferens), long post-traumatic ischemia 4. endocrine: hypogonadotropic, hypogonadism 5. cytogenetic: klinefelter syndrome, translocation * couples whose male partner shows an abnormality of the male genital tractus : VARICOCEME undescended,testis, testicular volume \< 12ml * couples whose female partner presents an anovulation, ovarian insufficiency or a proven uterus-tubal pathology
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Laboratoire d'Histologie- Embryologie - Cytogénétique - CECOS
Bondy, 93143, France
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