What: A Danish study of over 327,000 children found there was no association between BMI and children born using IVF or ovulation induction versus without any fertility treatments.
Why it matters: There had been some previous research that found correlations between assisted reproductive technologies and increased body weight as children aged.
Source: PLOS Medicine
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