Use of assisted reproductive technology was associated with increased odds of stroke during index hospitalization for delivery, regardless of maternal age, researchers reported.
The results were presented at the International Stroke Conference and simultaneously published in Stroke.
“Infertility treatment with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has been associated with adverse vascular events in some, but not all previous studies,” Alis J. Dicpinigaitis, MD, resident in neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and colleagues wrote in the simultaneous