ECO: deadly!

Researchers in the Netherlands found that the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy grow three times if the child was conceived during the IVF procedure. However, this information is unlikely to affect the popularity of artificial insemination.

A group of researchers from the Dutch Radboud University, led by Professor Didi Braathen believes that the reason for the sharp increase the risk of death   during pregnancy after IVF   that a woman's body rejects the donor egg. Perhaps the fore health problems arising in the course of in vitro fertilization. Scientists call the doctors conducting   IVF To increased vigilance to the exact cause of the risk would be installed.

"Women need to be fully informed about all the risks, including increased the risk of death   during pregnancy - said Professor Braathen. - We followed the deaths of pregnant women in our country from 1984 to 2008. But I think that this relationship will be observed in any developed country. "

It was found that during this period died 17 pregnant women, past IVF That the mortality rate was 42 5 per 100 thousand. Among women who conceive naturally, this ratio is 17 per 100 thousand.

The increasing age of women giving birth may also be a cause of the increasing number of complications. Last year, in the Netherlands, we have given birth to more than 27 thousand women over the age of 40 years, over the past decade is an increase of 50%.

These studies were published in the journal Human Reproduction.

Pregnancy and Gynecology

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