Tag : INFERTILITY

More than 2 million children are conceived annually using assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Although previous studies have shown that children born from ART have a higher risk for congenital anomalies (CAs), whether this observed risk is attributable to underlying parental infertility or the ART treatment itself remains unclear. According to a recent Australian population-based cohort study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, ART-conceived children had slightly higher risks for CAs compared to naturally-conceived (NC) children. Importantly, this increased risk was mitigated when compared to children conceived naturally to parents who had a history of infertility, suggesting that parental infertility may be a contributing factor in the increased risk of CAs in ART-conceived infants.