Volume 24, Issue 104, July - August, 2020

Compare weight and height of in vitro fertilization-conceived children and spontaneous conceived children

Ngo Minh Xuan^1♦, Le Thi Minh Chau², Vo Minh Tuan³

¹Department of Pediatrics, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
²Tu Du hospital of Obstetrics And Gynecology, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
³Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Pediatrics, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam Email: xuanlien62@pnt.edu.vn

ABSTRACT

Objective: To compare weight and height of in vitro fertilization (IVF) -conceived children and spontaneously conceived children at the stage of 5 to 30 months in Tu Du hospital from 2016 to 2018. Methods: This is a prospective, controlled, cohort study. A total of 429 in vitro fertilization -conceived children, were compared with 509 spontaneous conceived children. All children were full-term singletons. The Control group was selected to match the study group for age. Primary end-points were height and weight. Results: No significant differences were observed between the IVF children and controls regarding weight (9.7±2.3 vs. 9.5±1.9) and height (74.8±7.7 vs75.0±6.9). The percentage of overweight and obese of IVF conceived children was significantly higher than that of natural children (11% vs. 7.1%, p= 0.037). However, no significant difference was found in the percentage of overweight and obese between the groups of age in the study. Conclusion: the study was not found a significant difference between children conceived after IVF treatment and naturally conceived children in terms of weight and height from 5 to 30 months.

Keywords: Growth, in vitro fertilization, the weight of children, the height of children

Medical Science, 2020, 24(104), 2180-2185

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