Children with artificial insemination are more likely to have high blood pressure

The first flamboyant baby, Louise Brown, saw the light in 1978. Artificial insemination has since opened the way to family-building for children without pairs.

However, animal studies and human studies suggest that the procedure may affect the child's future health. However, science has little information on the long-term evolution of risk factors.

Researchers have found that infants born with artificial IVF have a higher risk of developing hypertension in their teenage years.

Emrush Rexhaj and his research fathers reviewed 54 healthy, average 16-year-old young people who had artificial insemination. For comparison, 43 of their naturally occurring peers were studied in the control group.

According to the report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the IVF group's average blood pressure is higher than the control group: 119/71 mercury millimeters compared to the 115/69 mercury millimeter. The difference may seem small, but such a slight deviation also has a major impact on the risk of heart attack and heart disease.

Eight of the members of the IVF group had high blood pressure (130/80 mercury millimeters), but only one person in the control group.

A few years earlier, researchers surveyed the same children at an average age of 11 and compared their results with naturally occurring contemporaries. Signs of early maturation were already shown in IVF children, although there were no differences in blood pressure. They needed five years to show up, "Emrush Rexhaj said.

However, since the research was conducted with a relatively small number of participants, and IVF children were all born with the same center, the results should be treated with caution - the journal stressed.

(Source: marmalade.co.hu; MTI | Image: pixabay.com)