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Hence, this study aimed to dissect this connection.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study used a cross-sectional approach to select 1,641 female participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which was conducted between 2013 and 2020. The natural log\u2013transformed CMI (In-CMI) was used to consider the non-normal distribution of CMI. Logistic regression models adjusted for covariates were employed to investigate the association between the In-CMI and couple infertility.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>After adjusting for all covariates, each 1 unit increase in the In-CMI was associated with a 34% increase in the incidence of infertility (odds ratio [OR] 1.34, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.10\u20131.64, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u202f=\u202f0.004). In addition, the association remained statistically significant after dividing the In-CMI into tertiles (T1, T2, and T3). The T3 group, with the highest In-CMI, showed higher odds of infertility compared with the T1 group (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.38\u20133.23, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001). Subgroup and interaction analyses revealed that the association between the In-CMI and infertility depended on a history of treatment for pelvic infection (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> for interaction &amp;lt;0.05). The inflection point for a positive linear association between In-CMI and infertility was\u22120.73.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The female CMI is linked to the incidence of couple infertility. 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