“…Although it was not possible to exclude women who had BMI < 18.5 kg/m 2 from the group of women who were reported as having BMI < 25 kg/m 2 from the data provided in 18 studies (Fedorcsak et al, 2000;Loveland et al, 2001;Ferlitsch et al, 2002;Doody et al, 2003;Ryley et al, 2004;van Swieten et al, 2005;Hammadeh et al, 2005;Munz et al, 2005;Dechaud et al, 2006;Dorkras et al, 2006;Mitwally et al, 2006;Moini et al, 2008;Orvieto et al, 2009a;Farhi et al, 2010;Bellver et al, 2010;Chueca et al, 2010;Vilarino et al, 2010;Sathya et al, 2010), including these women in the current analysis has probably resulted in underestimation of the detrimental effect of raised BMI, as a low BMI (<18.5 kg/m 2 ) is known to be associated with a poorer IVF outcome (Veleva et al, 2008). Furthermore, the subgroup analysis followed the WHO criteria for overweight (BMI 25-29.9 kg/m 2 ) and obese (BMI 30 kg/m 2 ) in order to provide an accurate comparison of normal versus increased BMI (Wang et al, 2000Doody et al, 2003;Ryley et al, 2004;Fedorcsak et al, 2004;Dorkras et al, 2006;Metwally et al, 2007;Sneed et al, 2008;Esinler et al, 2008;Martinuzzi et al, 2008;Bellver et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2010;Kilic et al, 2010).…”