SATURDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- For those who need help
getting pregnant, the thought of having a child who's a little
shorter than other kids probably won't be much of a worry. But
the question of whether infertility treatment causes
unanticipated consequences remains fertile ground for
researchers. In a study scheduled for presentation Saturday at
the Endocrine Society annual meeting in Houston, researchers
found full-term children conceived with fertility drugs were
about one inch shorter than their peers. The researchers wanted
to find out whether there was a difference in height among
children whose mothers used only ovarian stimulation by
fertility drugs such as Clomid (clomiphene) without in-vitro
fertilization (IVF). Children conceived with the help of ovarian
stimulation alone account for about 5 percent of all births in
the developed world, according to the researchers. Previous
studies have suggested that children conceived by IVF may be
taller than naturally conceived kids. The researchers w