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This prospective cohort study evaluated the association between embryo development between day-3 cleavage and day-5 blastocyst stages and euploidy rates, determined using preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A). Embryos from women aged 35 years and above who underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injections and PGT-A were studied. Day-3 cleavage-stage embryos were evaluated for their cell number, and day-5 blastocyst-stage embryos were evaluated for their morphological grade. Embryo development from day 3 to day 5 was categorized as either good or poor development and evaluated for its association with the PGT-A results. We evaluated 325 embryos from 101 infertile couples. It was found that 55.17% of blastocysts with good development and 29.83% with poor development were euploid. A significant association was found between embryo development and euploidy rates in advanced-aged women (p &lt; 0.001). Also, there were significantly higher rates of euploid embryos with good blastocyst morphological grades, especially blastocyst expansion grades and trophectoderm grades. 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