Akindele Abimibayo Adeoya, Shinichi Egawa, Adebayo Sunday Adeoya, Ryoichi Nagatomi
Improving child nutrition in disasters by developing a modeled disaster preparedness nutrition education curriculum
Frontiers in public health
early childhood growth birth 3 years age differ mode conception findings suggest early childhood growth comparable children irrespective infertility treatment twins conceived ovulation induction without intrauterine insemination oiiui slightly smaller twins conceived without treatment although studies found babies conceived infertility treatment born lighter earlier infants conceived without treatment little research especially nonassisted reproductive technology art treatments focused continued growth early childhood upstate kids recruited infants born 20082010 resident upstate new york mothers infants sampled based birth certificate indication infertility treatment specifically every singleton conceived infertility treatment three singletons without infertility treatment recruited matched region birth multiple births irrespective treatment also recruited children prospectively followed returning questionnaires every 46 months 3 years age total 3905 singletons 1129 sets multiples 96 twins enrolled study analyses included 3440 88 singletons 969 conceived treatment specifically 433 art 535 oiiui 991 88 sets multiples 439 conceived treatment specifically 233 art 206 oiiui growth data available mothers reported infertility treatment use baseline childrens height weight pediatric visits selfreported use art previously verified linkage us society assisted reproductive technology clinic outcome reporting system sart cors database mixed linear models cubic splines accounting age agegender interactions used estimate mean differences growth birth 3 years infertility treatment status adjusting maternal age race education private insurance smoking status pregnancy maternal prepregnancy paternal body mass indices bmi compared singletons conceived without treatment n 2471 singletons conceived infertility treatment 433 assisted reproductive technologies art 535 oiiui 1 unknown specific type differ growth compared twins conceived treatment n 1076 twins conceived oiiui n 368 weighed slightly less followup 122 g also proportionally smaller length 017 weightforlength zscore units differences mean size 3 years observed twins conceived art though evidence rapid weight gain birth 4 months adjusted 108 95 ci 100116 suggestive catch growth observed participants upstate new york may representative us infants although accounted statistical analysis attrition followup may limited power detect small differences study first prospectively track growth children conceived without infertility treatment usa including substantial number twins findings similar previously observed art literature outside states supported intramural research program eunice kennedy shriver national institute child health human development nichd contracts hhsn275201200005c hhsn267200700019c authors competing interests declare applicable