Doctors at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, asked 2,574 couples about their drinking habits shortly before they embarked on a course of IVF treatment.
A little over half of the women (56%) and a third of the men had less than one alcoholic drink a week, while 4% of women and 5% of men consumed at least one drink every day.
Dr Brooke Rossi, who led the study, said men and women who each drank six units of alcohol a week each or more “significantly reduced their likelihood of pregnancy….”
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