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Recent changes in IVF clinical practice: data linkage to investigate their impact on fetal growth and birth defects

Investigators: Carol Bower, Michele Hansen

One in every 25 births or one child in every Australian classroom is conceived using Assisted Reproductive Technologies like in vitro fertilisation (IVF). We are comparing the health of these children to the health of other children conceived without these technologies (naturally conceived). For example, we are looking at whether children conceived following ART treatment are more likely than other children to have birth defects or cerebral palsy.