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Fertility treatment is being taken up by more women than ever before, pushing the average age up for women choosing IVF in the UK, according to new figures
Demonstrating a huge leap from the early 1990s, by 2007 36,648 women opted for fertility treatment - a rise of 5% on the 34,855 in 2006.
Less than half that the number had fertility treatment in 1992, when just 14,057 women with an average age of 33 underwent the treatment.
The data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) show the women who underwent IVF in 2007 received 46,502 cycles of fertility treatment and had an average age of 36.
The new figures from 2006 show 12,589 babies were born as a result fertility treatment, mainly IVF and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) where the sperm is injected directly into the egg. This represents a 12% rise on the 11,268 born in 2005.
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