A Meta Analysis of the Physical Development of 0~ 3-year-old Test Tube Babies
LIU Hongxiang
REN Chune
ZHANG Anqing
DOU Xiaowei
BAI Hongwei
Abstract：Objective To evaluate the safety of ART by assessing physical development of children born with assisted reproduc-tive technology ( ART) . Methods Cohort study of the comparison between physical development of 0~ 3-year-old children con-ceived by assisted reproductive technology and by nature conceived ( NC) was conducted in China Academic Journal Network Publish-ing Database, VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals, China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database, PubMed, EBSCO, Springer-Link, Cochrane Library and other relevant resource websites. Assisted by RevMan 5.0, the result was processed by meta a-nalysis. Results Results of meta analysis showed that in terms of physical growth of children, there was no statistically significant difference between the assisted reproductive technology and natural pregnancy . (P=0.14) OR ( 95%CI) =1.80, 95%CI (0.83, 3.92). Conclusion Assisted reproductive technology does not affect the physical development of infants.
Keywords：assisted reproductive technologymeta analysisphysical development
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 24-27 )