Genetic health risks in children of assisted reproductive technology
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 12:28
in Health & Medicine
More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first 'test tube baby' in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group they are at greater risk of certain kinds of birth defects and being low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life...