I-20: ART - Children How Are They Doing Lessons from Research

Worldwide there are over 4,000,000 ART conceived individuals. As fertility rates ‘fall’ in some countries use of ART is increasing with rates of 1.8% of live births in the UK, 4.4% in Denmark etc. Although still the single largest threat to future ART born children is being born twin, triplet or more, other research shows that there is good grounds for monitoring of the health of these children into adult life. The speaker will give a digestible over view of the known outcomes and identify future health monitoring needs. He will also give recommendations as to what to advise couples who attend a clinic in Iran for assisted conception about those risks