Thyroid Dysfunction More Common in IVF Children

[PR4NOW]

"Children conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), especially those resulting from fresh embryo transfers, have an increased risk for thyroid dysfunction, according to new research."

The article is from Medscape. PR

medscape.com/viewarticle/83...

[diogenes Remembering]

This does not surprise me at all. Development of the embryo to a fully viable baby starts from a potentially fragile beginning. That is, the slightest trauma on transplantation can disturb the many organisational and temporal changes that are happening in the first cell divisions, compromising the final outcome. And any such disturbance has a knock-on effect to further development and could show itself in all sorts of ways. Natural embryo implantation and artificial implantation are subtly not exactly the same in their consequences. The "miracle" of transplantation has its own drawbacks.

[Muffy in reply to diogenes]

It could well be that the egg was from a mother with either diagnosed or undiagnosed hypothyroidism and hence the babies born to them would likely to be thyroid deficient as well.

[shaws Administrator]

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