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Assisted reproductive technologies not associated with body mass index in children, except when using frozen embryos – according to new Danish study

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Assisted reproductive technologies not associated with body mass index in children, except when using frozen embryos – according to new Danish study

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Assisted reproductive technologies not associated with body mass index in children, except when using frozen embryos – according to new Danish study

 

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004324

Article Title: Overweight or obesity in children born after assisted reproductive technologies in Denmark: A population-based cohort study

Author Countries: Denmark, United States, Sweden, the Netherlands

Funding: This work was supported by a grant from NIH R01HD088393 received by JH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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