Low growth of a child is a consequence of drugs stimulating conception
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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New research has revealed that women who have taken drugs that stimulate the conception process are born with low children. In the course of the study it became known that boys whose mothers used drugs to promote conception, aged 3 to 10 years, were on average 3 cm shorter than boys whose mothers did not use any medications. The same can be said about the girls, but they have this difference is not so pronounced.
As the researchers say, the results were unexpected, as previous studies showed that children conceived by in vitro fertilization, which also used drugs to promote conception, were higher than those born naturally. The next study is planned to find out whether the difference in growth at an older age is leveled.
However, there are opponents of this opinion, noting that the evidence found about the relationship between growth and medical drugs is inconclusive. And also known is the fact that a child's growth depends on the growth of his parents and their weight. Growth is a very complex symptom, depending on many factors, including the environment in which the child is growing, and the food that he uses. Although it is not necessary to deny the fact that stimulation of the ovaries with the help of medications leads to changes in certain embryonic genes.
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