Table 1. Patients’ characteristics per treatment group.
Outcomes Cleavage Blastocyst p valuea
Fresh ET      
Age, years 33.9 ± 3.25 33.03 ± 2.26 NS
Embryos transferred, n 2.04 ± 0.52 1.94 ± 0.35 NS
Frozen-thawed ET      
Age, years 32.9 ± 3.96 31.64 ± 4.02 NS
Embryos transferred, n 2.05 ± 0.49 1.85 ± 0.42 0.0486
The data is expressed as means ± standard deviations
ET = embryo transfer; NS = not significant
aStatistical analysis performed by unpaired t-test or Mann-Whitney test or Fisher’s exact test