Methods and means for determining the female fertile period
CA 2176248 A1 · Owner: March, Steven C. · Inventors: March, Steven C.; Jeng, Tzyy-Wen
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Provided is a highly reliable method to predict the beginning and/or ending of the fertile period for a female for each menstrual cycle. The methods and means provided advantageously address the day-to-day cycle-to-cycle, and women-to-women variability in fertility hormone levels by analyzing the measurements of serial hormone concentrations in the midst of daily hormonal variations to determine when an actual and significant increase in the concentration of the monitored hormone has begun. Thus the present disclosure is directed to a method that combines existing hormone assay methods with calculation procedures to optimize the predictive values of daily hormonal changes. In this way a …
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- Filed December 16, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 16, 2014.
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