{"id":244331,"date":"2026-04-21T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=244331"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:43:39","slug":"national-infertility-week-pcos-and-weight-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/04\/national-infertility-week-pcos-and-weight-management\/","title":{"rendered":"National Infertility Week- PCOS and Weight Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a week-long series on WFSB\u2019s Great Day at 9a for National Infertility Awareness Week, UConn Health OB\/GYN Dr. Jason Schneider discusses a common condition, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), as well as the role weight management can play in infertility. In addition to his work as an OB\/GYN, Dr. Schneider is board certified in obesity medicine, allowing him to take a comprehensive approach to care and support his patients with both hormonal health and sustainable weight management strategies that may improve fertility outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"NATIONAL INFERTILITY AWARENESS WEEK: PCOS can be tied to obesity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eipr9SvNiRw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health OB\/GYN Dr. Jason Schneider discusses a common condition, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), as well as the role weight management can play in infertility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":244332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,2672,179,2720,2295],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2209],"class_list":["post-244331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-healthcare-reimagined","category-uconn-health","category-uconn-health-community-network","category-womens-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 16:07:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244416,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244331\/revisions\/244416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/244332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244331"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=244331"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=244331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}