Objectives: To explore the relationship between the composition of assisted reproductive human groups and the reproductive quality of life.
Methods: From July 2022 to October 2022, a total of 676 infertile couples who underwent embryo implantation for infertility in an assisted reproductive medical institution in Anhui Province were selected by a convenience sampling method. The participant’s general information, body composition, and quality of reproductive life were collected by questionnaire survey and instrument measurement. The relationship between body composition and quality of reproductive life was investigated, and the dose-response relationship of them were explored by using restricted cubic splines.
Results: Patients’ quality of reproductive life score is 64.70 ± 13.65. The quality of reproductive life score in men was higher than that in women. In the sphere of the therapeutic environment, females outperformed males. After adjusting for confounding variables, body composition measurements of protein (95% CI:0.20-1.45), whole-body water (95% CI: 0.05-0.40), and skeletal muscle (95% CI: 0.07-0.48) were positively correlated with scores on the reproductive quality of life scale. Scores for reproductive quality of life were negatively linked with body fat percentage (95% CI: -0.38-0.04) (P < 0.05). these correlations were corroborated by RCS model, which had a linear dose-response relationship.
Conclusions: The quality of reproductive life in the assisted reproductive technology-treated infertility population is affected by body composition. Interventions in nutrition, diet, and exercise can be given to increase protein intake to improve skeletal muscle content, perform targeted resistance exercise and reduce body fat percentage to improve the patient's quality of reproductive life.
Funding Sources: University Research and Humanities Project of Anhui Province, No.2022AH050627 Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.72004001
