Researchers looked at 300 women and evaluated the sperm quality of their sons

At Ukmedix News we have written quite a few articles about how overweight and obese people are less fertile. This applies to men as well as women and the statistics show that obese women find it harder to get pregnant than normal weight women and doctors who specialise in fertility often advise women that if they shed a few pounds they may have more luck in conceiving. 

New research that we have come across recently shows that the problem of fertility could even be inherited as a group of researchers in Denmark say that women who are overweight or obese may have sons who have a lower quality of sperm when compared to those men who had normal weight mothers. The scientists from Aarhus University said that they could not positively identify the reason why this is the case but that it could be something to do with the fact that women who are overweight produce more of the hormone estrogen which could possibly get in the way of the development of the male reproductive organs doing pregnancy. The researchers looked at over 300 women and evaluated the sperm quality of their sons. 

However what does need to be born in mind is that women who are obese and who have children are more likely to have obese children themselves and since infertility is linked to obesity maybe the reason why the sons were less fertile was because they themselves were obese. The researchers admitted that the statistics only showed a slight reduction in quality of sperm of the men tested and that further research would need to be done to conclusively prove that there was a clinically significant link between obese mothers and infertile sons.

As more and more research is done on obesity the list of medical problems and illnesses connected with being overweight or obese seems to be growing.