{"id":893972,"date":"2026-09-16T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893972\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:36:33","slug":"amh-testing-surges-among-women-despite-limited-reliability-says-aussie-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893972\/","title":{"rendered":"AMH testing surges among women despite limited reliability, says Aussie study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GP requests for anti-mullerian hormone testing increased more than 13-fold over a ten year period, despite growing evidence that the tests cannot reliably predict fertility, according to an Australian study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analysis of 1.4 million health records between 2011 and 2021 found 12,060 Australian women had at least one anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) test requested by their GP, of which 8621 were conducted as part of a fertility assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sharpest rise was in women aged 30-34, with test rates increasing almost 20-fold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Flinders University researchers warned that AMH tests were not a \u201creproductive crystal ball\u201d and said the findings highlighted the gap between clinical practice, public perception and the scientific evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GP requests for anti-mullerian hormone testing increased more than 13-fold over a ten year period, despite growing evidence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-893972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}