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Singleton babies born 1997\u20132018, and their mothers, who were registered at GP practices in England contributing data to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), were identified through the CPRD GOLD mother\u2013baby dataset; this data was augmented with further linkage to the mothers\u2019 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Register data. Four groups of babies were identified through the mothers\u2019 records: a \u2018fertile\u2019 comparison group, an \u2018untreated sub-fertile\u2019 group, an \u2018ovulation induction\u2019 group, and an ART group. Babies were followed-up from birth to 28 February 2021, unless censored due to loss to follow-up (e.g. leaving GP practice, emigration) or death.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>PARTICIPANTS\/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The CPRD collects anonymized coded patient electronic health records from a network of GPs in the UK. We estimated primary care costs and hospital admission costs for babies in the four fertility groups using the CPRD GOLD data and the linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Admitted Patient Care (APC) data. Linear regression was used to compare the care costs in the different groups. Inverse probability weights were generated and applied to adjust for potential bias caused by attrition due to loss to follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Children born to mothers with no fertility problems had significantly fewer consultations and lower primary care costs compared to the other groups throughout the 10-years\u2019 follow up. Regarding hospital costs, children born after ART had significantly higher hospital admission costs in the first year after birth compared to those born to mothers with no fertility problems (difference\u2009=\u2009\u00a3307 (95% CI: 153, 477)). The same pattern was observed in children born after untreated subfertility and ovulation induction.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>HFEA linkage uses non-donor data cycles only, and the introduction of consent for data use reduced the availability of HFEA records after 2009. The fertility groups were derived by augmenting HFEA data with evidence from primary care records; however, there remains some potential misclassification of exposure groups. The cost of neonatal critical care is not captured in the HES APC data, which may cause underestimation of the cost differences between the comparison group and the infertility groups.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The findings can help anticipate the financial impact on the healthcare system associated with subfertility and ART, particularly as the demand for these treatments grows.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>STUDY FUNDING\/COMPETING INTEREST(S)<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>C.C. and this work were funded by a UK Medical Research Council Career Development Award [MR\/L019671\/1] and a UK MRC Transition Support Award [MR\/W029286\/1]. X.H. is an Australia National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Fellow [grant number 2009253]. The authors declare no competing interest.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>N\/A.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/humrep\/dead198","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,7]],"date-time":"2023-10-07T21:28:24Z","timestamp":1696714104000},"page":"2507-2515","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Long-term healthcare utilization and costs of babies born after assisted reproductive technologies (ART): a record linkage study with 10-years\u2019 follow-up in England"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"38","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2102-5461","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinyang","family":"Hua","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford , Oxford, UK"},{"name":"Centre for Health 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