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Reproductive healthcare use was operationalised as care-seeking history, utilisation intensity and subsequent engagement with assisted reproductive technology (ART) and financial support.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Population-based retrospective cohort study. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Korean National Health Insurance Service nationwide claims database.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Women aged 20\u201349 years with a first recorded infertility diagnosis in 2019\u20132020 (n=151\u2009570).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Pregnancy identified without recorded loss within 1 year after infertility diagnosis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Differences between women who did and did not have a pregnancy identified without recorded loss were more pronounced in pregnancy-related diagnostic codes recorded prior to infertility diagnosis than in classical genitourinary disorders. ART use (OR: 1.66; 95% CI 1.60 to 1.72) and financial support (OR: 1.60; 95% CI 1.54 to 1.67) were positively associated with pregnancy; however, these associations were modest relative to age and socioeconomic gradients. Greater postdiagnostic healthcare utilisation was associated with lower odds of pregnancy identification.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Women diagnosed with infertility exhibit heterogeneous patterns of prediagnostic and postdiagnostic healthcare engagement. 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