‘Infertile women abusing ovulation-inducing drugs risk diabetes, cardiovascular diseases’ Published 30 May 2021 Women experiencing infertility have been warned about the risks of using ovulation-inducing drugs without evaluation and prescription by fertility experts. Some maternal health experts say women abusing ovulation-inducing drugs by engaging in self-medication are at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus and may damage their ovaries. Cardiovascular Diseases include abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, aorta disease and Marfan syndrome, congenital heart disease, and coronary artery disease (narrowing of the arteries). Others are deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, heart attack, heart failure, and heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy). According to the experts, some of these drugs have severe side effects that may do more harm than good, warning that ovulation-inducing drugs cannot treat all causes of infertility.