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Monday January 26, 2004
Another IVF Risk: Tripled Rates of Very Premature Births in IVF Babies
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LEIDEN, Netherlands, January 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Researchers at the Netherlands Leiden University and Flinders University have revealed today that IVF children are at a tripled risk for very premature birth -- a baby born prior to 32 weeks gestation -- and, in addition, a doubled risk of a "mildly" premature baby, born between 32 and 36 weeks of gestation.
The study also found that there was an increased risk of "small for dates" babies, babies that are underweight at birth, in IVF children compared with children who were conceived naturally and born after the same period of gestation.
The findings prompted one collaborator in the study to say that "Singletons from assisted conception are significantly disadvantaged."
This latest finding is one in a string of similar findings as revealed by LifeSiteNews.com in past issues, including studies from Washington University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention -- showing greater likelihood of complications such as Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome; rare urological defects including bladder development outside the body; heart or central nervous system abnormalities; and "ambiguous genitalia."
Read the BBC coverage of the Netherlands study at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3420265.stm
Also read prior LifeSiteNews.com coverage "Researchers Admit IVF Carries Higher Birth Defect Risk," at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/sep/03092206.html
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