Weight preoccupation among infertile women

Abstract

An unselected group of 30 women attending an infertility clinic was studied in a preliminary investigation to determine relationships between weight, abnormal eating attitudes, symptomatic distress, and impairment of ovulation. Those women in the group with anovulatory menstrual cycles were compared with the women who were ovulating. The anovultory women were found to be more preoccupied with weight and dieting. This weight preoccupation was not related to significant group differences in body weight or symptomatic distress. There was a tendency for the anovulatory women to be overweight or underweight, but this did not reach significance.