{"id":319809,"date":"2024-10-05T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=319809"},"modified":"2024-10-03T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T02:50:49","slug":"children-conceived-ivf-risk-heart-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/children-conceived-ivf-risk-heart-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Children conceived using IVF have greater risk of heart defects, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/eurheartj\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehae572\/7773316\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently published by the European Heart Journal suggests that children conceived using in vitro fertilization (IVF) have an increased risk of congenital heart defects. As reported by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/27\/health\/ivf-birth-defects.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, researchers tracked the health of children born through IVF in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland between 1985 and 2014. In examining the medical records of over seven million Nordic children, they discovered evidence that IVF poses a risk to the children\u2019s heart health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, entitled &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congenital heart defects in children born after assisted reproductive technology: a CoNARTaS study<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221; began with the premise that \u201cChildren born after assisted reproductive technology (ART) have worse perinatal outcomes compared with spontaneously conceived children.\u201d The researchers went on to investigate whether children conceived through IVF have a higher risk of congenital heart defects, defined in the study as \u201cstructural anomalies of the heart and intrathoracic vessels during pregnancy and birth,\u201d as compared with children who were conceived naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers cross-linked data from national ART registries, medical birth registries (MBRs), national patient registries (NPRs), cause of death registries, and birth registries from the four countries, examining data of all the countries&#8217; live-born children, and the birth years of the children generally spanned from 1984-2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of the 7,747,637 children studied, 171,735 were conceived with ART. Researchers studied the health outcomes of children conceived with ART who were implanted in the womb after being frozen at the embryo stage, as well as children who were implanted in the womb without previously having been frozen. No link was found between congenital heart defects and the fact that some of the children conceived with IVF were frozen as embryos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers looked at the data of children who were diagnosed with congenital heart defects (CHDs) at birth and up to one year of age, rating the severity of the defects and taking into account maternal age and health. They found that congenital heart defects are more prevalent among babies conceived with IVF than babies conceived naturally or spontaneously\u20131.84% of children conceived with ART had CHDs while 1.15% of children conceived naturally had CHDs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/90210-star-jennie-garth-ivf-separation-husband\/\"><em>\u201890210\u2019 star Jennie Garth says IVF attempts fueled separation from husband<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study notes that children conceived with IVF are more likely to be born prematurely, which is one reason why these babies are more likely to suffer from heart defects early in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the study, the risk of congenital heart defects is greater for multiple babies conceived, implanted, and gestated together in a woman\u2019s womb after IVF. This points to one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/poll-support-ivf-4-things-told\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fundamental issues with IVF<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013that the process works by implanting multiple children at the embryo stage at one time. As the study shows, the twins, triplets, and sometimes even greater numbers of children conceived via IVF and gestated together in the womb suffer major health complications, including a greater risk of spontaneous or intentional death, because of IVF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of multiples conceived with ART who developed CHDs is nearly double the number of singletons who were conceived with ART. As seen in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/view-large\/483088106\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Table 4<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cMajor CHDs were detected among 1.62% (2,059)\u201d of singletons who were conceived with assisted reproductive technology. As seen in Table 4, 2.47% (1,100) multiples conceived with IVF suffered major CHDs, and 0.44% (195) multiples conceived with IVF suffered severe CHDs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/resist-pressure-to-dispense-the-abortion-pill\/\"><b><i>Urge Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major chains to resist pressure to dispense the abortion pill<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study recently published by the European Heart Journal suggests that children conceived using in vitro fertilization (IVF) have an increased risk of congenital heart defects. As reported by The New York Times, researchers tracked the health of children born through IVF in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland between 1985 and 2014. 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