Association of Assisted Reproductive Technology With Offspring Growth and Adiposity From Infancy to Early Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

People conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART) make up an increasing proportion of the world's population.

Objective

To investigate the association of ART conception with offspring growth and adiposity from infancy to early adulthood in a large multicohort study.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used a prespecified coordinated analysis across 26 European, Asia-Pacific, and North American population-based cohort studies that included people born between 1984 and 2018, with mean ages at assessment of growth and adiposity outcomes from 0.6 months to 27.4 years. Data were analyzed between November 2019 and February 2022.

Exposures

Conception by ART (mostly in vitro fertilization, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and emb

SUBMITTER: Elhakeem A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9327583 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature