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To clarify these concerns, health outcomes in survivor offspring born following ART (n = 74, 4.5%) or after spontaneous conception (n = 1585) were assessed in our European offspring study by descriptive and bivariate analysis. Outcomes were compared to a sibling offspring cohort (n = 387) in a 4:1 matched-pair analysis (n = 1681). (i) Survivors were more likely to employ ART than their siblings (4.5% vs. 3.7%, p = 0.501). Successful pregnancies were achieved after a median of one cycle with, most commonly, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using non-cryopreserved oocytes\/sperm. (ii) Multiple-sibling births (p &lt; 0.001, 29.7% vs. 2.5%), low birth weight (p &lt; 0.001; OR = 3.035, 95%-CI = 1.615\u20135.706), and preterm birth (p &lt; 0.001; OR = 2.499, 95%-CI = 1.401\u20134.459) occurred significantly more often in survivor offspring following ART utilisation than in spontaneously conceived children. 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