Fertility treatment and child intelligence, attention, and executive functions in 5-year-old singletons: A cohort study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 121, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1642-1651

  Bay, B ^a   Mortensen, E L ^b   Kesmodel, U S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attention; child development; executive functions; fertility treatment; intelligence; subfertility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFERTILITY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; INFERTILITY; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME TO PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTENTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INTELLIGENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SMOKING; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84920869714     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.12907     Document Type: Article

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