Pregnancies following egg donation associated with more than 3-fold higher risk of hypertension

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 20:01 in Health & Medicine

With an ever-aging female patient population, egg donation is an increasingly common treatment in infertility. Annual reports on fertility treatments in Europe show a rise in egg donation cycles from 15,028 in 2007 to 24,517 in 2010. This proportion is still some way behind the USA, where egg donation now accounts for around 12 percent of all treatments.

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