CDC Releases State-Specific Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance Report

The Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance – United States, 2014 summary in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) released today presents state-specific data on assisted reproductive technology (ART) use and outcomes. The report compares ART infant outcome data with outcomes for all infants born in the U.S. in 2014. It also provides data on the contributions of ART to total infants born, multiple birth infants, low birth weight infants, and preterm infants for each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Findings include:

In 2014, approximately 1.6% of all infants born in the United States were conceived with ART.
The national percentage of elective single embryo transfer increased from 7.4% in 2009 to 28.5% in 2014 among women aged <35 years. From 2013 to 2014, the national percentage of elective single embryo transfer among women aged <35 years increased by approximately 33%.
Approximately 39% of ART infants were born in multiple births compared with 3.5% among infants born in the general population.
A greater proportion of ART infants were low birth weight (28.0%) and preterm (33.2%) compared with infants in the birth population overall (8.0% and 11.3%, respectively).

The full MMWR surveillance summary is available here. Clinic-specific ART success rates can be found here.