IVF has a high risk of disease

Children born with in vitro fertilization (IVF) are at higher risk for diseases such as diabetes and obesity than those born naturally, according to scientists at the Great University. Study Temple (USA).

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In addition, the scientists also reported that children born with IVF also have a high risk of low birth weight, malformations and metabolic disorders. The cause is due to genetic changes in these children 's bodies.

Professor Carmen Sapienza, a genetic researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia and a member of the research team, said: "Genetic differences are likely to affect fetal development. In vitro fertilization also increases the risk of diseases when this fetus is born. '

In their study, scientists conducted blood samples taken from the placenta and umbilical cord of 10 children born with IVF and 13 other children were born according to fertilization. nature.

They then analyzed DNA taken from blood samples to test whether there were differences between these samples in the amount of methyl. The results showed that the amount of methyl in the cells of children born under IVF was lower than that of normal children. This will create genetic changes.

'We have discovered that in vitro fertilization makes the amount of methyl be reduced, which in turn causes genetic changes in babies born in this way,' concluded Professor Sapienza.