Large for gestational age is infant gender dependent in artificial frozen embryo transfers cycles – a cohort study of 1295 singleton live births.
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To investigate the effect of FET cycles on infant birth weight outcomes and to identify the variables predicting large for gestational age (LGA) infants. Fetal growth is a complex process of maternal, placental and fetal interaction, regulated by inherent genetic, metabolic, and endocrine factors and is considered to be an independent predictor of postnatal infant health, as suggested by the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis (Barker, 2007). One concern which has consistently plagued FET cycles was highlighted in previously reported studies; FET cycles have an increased risk for high birth weight outcomes, including LGA and macrosomia (Wennerholm et al., 2013, Pinborg et al., 2013, Pinborg et al., 2014).
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the data was extracted from an IVF database, using the criteria single fetal heart and live birth on freeze-all-IVF treatment cycles performed between February 2015 and February 2017