Perinatal health in a cohort of children conceived after assisted reproduction in the UK: a population-based record-linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the risk of hospitalisation for conditions originating in the perinatal period between children conceived via assisted reproductive technology and those that are naturally conceived, differentiating by treatment type.

Study design, setting and participants

Population-based record-linkage study of children born after assisted reproduction in the UK between 2002 and 2009 (n=44 618), their naturally conceived siblings (n=8462) and matched naturally conceived population (n=89 072) controls linked to their hospital inpatient records up to 31 March 2016.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Robust estimates of the overall and cause-specific risk of hospital admission for adverse perinatal events and the comparison of outcomes by type of treatment.

SUBMITTER: Purkayastha M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11555099 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature