CHILDREN BORN using in vitro fertilisation and other assisted reproductive technologies (Art)generally do well, but researchers are now studying the reasons why a small fraction are more likely to have health problems in later life.
Some are more prone to high blood pressure, type II diabetes and obesity, a scientific meeting has heard.
Reliance on these technologies has also allowed otherwise infertile couples to have children that would have been impossible in the past. This in turn may produce offspring who are themselves infertile, a session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Diego heard. The conference drew to a close yesterday.
Louise Brown, the world’s first baby conceived using assisted reproductive technologies was born on July 25th, 1978.
Researchers have wondered since then whether unforeseen long term health issues might arise. “We are doing a big experiment here,” stated Prof Carmen Sapienza of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Source : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0223/1224265037271.html
Some are more prone to high blood pressure, type II diabetes and obesity, a scientific meeting has heard.
Reliance on these technologies has also allowed otherwise infertile couples to have children that would have been impossible in the past. This in turn may produce offspring who are themselves infertile, a session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Diego heard. The conference drew to a close yesterday.
Louise Brown, the world’s first baby conceived using assisted reproductive technologies was born on July 25th, 1978.
Researchers have wondered since then whether unforeseen long term health issues might arise. “We are doing a big experiment here,” stated Prof Carmen Sapienza of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Source : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0223/1224265037271.html
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