Svend Lindenberg: One in Five Births Among Danish Women 40+ Linked to IVF/ICSI or Frozen Egg Transfer
Svend Lindenberg, CEO of Copenhagen Fertility Center, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Over the past 10 years, Danish fertility clinics have helped create an estimated 45,000 children after IVF/ICSI and frozen egg transfer with their own eggs.
Among these, about 5,500–6,000 children are born after treatment in women aged 40 years or older.
These are not marginal figures.
When the concern in the public debate is formulated as meaning that fertility treatment in women over 40 has a lower success rate and should therefore have a lower priority, we should at the same time stick to the Danish data: Every year, several hundred children are born in Denmark after IVF/ICSI or frozen egg transfer in women aged 40 or over.
In 2024 alone, around 584 expected children were reported after IVF/ICSI or frozen egg transfer in women 40+ with their own eggs. This corresponds to approximately one in five births among women aged 40 or over in Denmark. @Dansk Fertility Company
It is important to add: This has only been possible because the private fertility clinics in Denmark have continued to treat this age group, while the public system has generally not offered IVF treatment to women over 40.
Over the years, the Danish private fertility clinics have built up considerable clinical expertise in this particular patient group — women with lower egg reserve, previous unsuccessful treatments, higher reproductive age and a need for highly individual counselling and stimulation strategy.
Now that fertility treatment is being opened up for women over 40 without direct co-payment, it becomes even more important to ensure short waiting lists, a real treatment guarantee and fast referral processes with #ventetidsgaranti. This has already been mentioned several times by Dansk Erhverv – Sundhed og Life Science.
For women over 40, time is not an administrative detail. In this group, a decline in fertility over a few months can be clinically significant. A political decision on access only has real value if processing can actually begin in time.
Women over 40 should not be promised unrealistic results. But they should not be written off either.
Fertility treatment after 40 should be based on individual prognosis, egg reserve, previous treatment history, honest advice — and timely access.”
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