China News Service, March 7 (Chen Jing and Zheng Jiaqi) In recent years, the importance of assisted reproductive technology for fertility has become increasingly prominent.
As a specific population, the offspring of assisted reproduction have received widespread attention for their health risks.
The Shanghai assisted reproductive progeny cohort database started construction on the 7th, and 4,500 progeny of assisted reproductive technology will be included and followed up to 3 months after birth, and subsequent or extended to children or even adulthood, forming a clinical database for the entire life cycle.
It is understood that the establishment of the Shanghai assisted reproduction offspring cohort database aims to further clarify the clinical epidemiological characteristics of assisted reproduction offspring’s health/disease, and to explore whether the interaction of environmental, nutritional, genetic and other factors in the early life of the offspring will affect the health of offspring in the near and long term. Have an impact, and provide strategies and suggestions for promoting the health of assisted reproduction offspring and improving the quality of the country’s population.
The hospital focuses on core issues such as the reduction of birth defects, preservation of female fertility, and the health of offspring of assisted reproduction.
Photo courtesy of Chinese women and infants
Project leader Liu Zhiwei, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chief Physician, and Doctoral Supervisor of the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital of the Chinese Welfare Association (abbreviation: National Women and Infants) said: "After the database is completed, it is expected that the epidemiological characteristics of Shanghai assisted reproduction offspring will be dynamically grasped. Collecting and forming massive population data resources to lay the foundation for the promotion and improvement of the clinical diagnosis and treatment quality and research level of the offspring of assisted reproduction in municipal hospitals, and promote it to Shanghai and the whole country.” He believes: “We must not only pay attention to the quality of childbearing population, but also We should focus on the mid- to long-term health of assisted reproduction offspring."
The database is led by the National Women's and Children's Hospital, and is jointly created by Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital, Fudan University Affiliated Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University Pediatrics Hospital, and Shanghai Jiaotong University Xinhua Hospital, etc. The construction standard is unified, professional authority, open sharing, expansion on demand, covering basic clinical data of prenatal-neonatal/infant period.
China Welfare International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital is a maternity and child health hospital founded by Song Qingling, one of the founders of the People’s Republic of China, the honorary chairman of the country, and the founder of China Welfare Association. It is now a tertiary A-grade obstetrics and gynecology specialist hospital.
In 1991, Shanghai's first healthy baby conceived through GIFT was born here.
In the following 30 years, assisted reproductive technology developed rapidly in Shanghai.
In 2002, the National Women and Infant was approved to establish the first batch of the country and the first assisted reproductive medicine center in Shanghai. So far, various assisted reproductive technologies have been used to provide diagnosis and treatment of assisted pregnancy and eugenics for nearly 50,000 families, and more than 20,000 healthy offspring were born. name.
In May 2014, the hospital was successfully approved to carry out the third-generation human assisted reproductive technology-preimplantation genetic testing technology.
At the same time, the hospital focuses on core issues such as the reduction of birth defects, preservation of female fertility, and the health of the offspring of assisted reproduction, and continues to innovate, giving new hope to more families in need of assisted reproductive technology.
On the same day, National Women and Infants invited many families who had successfully given birth to offspring through various assisted reproductive technologies in the past 30 years to participate in the event.
They shared those "indissoluble bonds" with assisted reproductive technology and hospitals.
Ms. Chen and his wife successfully gave birth to a healthy baby boy with the help of the second-generation test-tube baby technology (ICSI) in China in April 2001.
This is also the first second-generation test-tube baby born in China.
The baby who fell to the ground is now a 20-year-old sophomore.
Ms. Chen was very emotional: "Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, childbirth is a normal life process, but for us, it was an unattainable luxury at that time! Twenty years ago, I went to the hospital for fertility problems. , Is a difficult thing to say. But I am very fortunate now, thank the hospital for giving us the opportunity to be parents! (End)