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Our study included all of the stimulated IVF\/ICSI cycles performed at our institution in the period between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2018 in which one-two embryos were obtained in the IVF\/ICSI cycle and met our inclusion criteria, and we compared the data between day three and day five embryo transfer (ET). The analysis revealed that the day three ET group of patients was significantly older (p &lt; 0.001), were administered a significantly higher dose of gonadotrophins (p = 0.015), and retrieved a lower mean number of aspirated oocytes per cycle (p &lt; 0.001) and lower mean number of embryos (p &lt; 0.001). The birth rate per ET was significantly higher in the day five ET group (p = 0.045) and further analysis indicated that this could be due the trend observed in a group of patients under 36 years old, while in older patients there was no such difference. 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