cancer in childhoodIVFmedicalised conceptionmedicalised conceptionmedically assisted fecundationmedically assisted fecundationovarian superovulationprematuritypsychomotor development
Deliveries and children born after in-vitro fertilisation in Sweden 1982-95: a retrospective cohort
Autor(en)
Bergh T, Ericson A
Veröffentlichungsdatum
1999
Ort der Sudie
Sweden
Abstract
Data from all in-vitro-fertilisation clinics in Sweden (=5856 children born between 1982 and 1995) were compared with data regarding all babies born in the general population (n=1 505 724). The rate of prematurity was higher in the IVF group ( 30.3 vs 6.3%). The rate of very low birth weight (<1500g) was higher (27.4 vs 4.6%). The rates of neural-tube defects and oesophageal atresia were higher than those in the controls. There was no increase in childhood cancer in the in-vitro- fertilisation group.
Diskussion
This is the most important study on this subject. For obvious reasons we need to wait several years to have the results of studies assessing these children after puberty.