Women over 50 who get pregnant using donor eggs do not appear to face greater risks of complications than younger women using the same assisted baby-making technologies. According to Dr. Mark Sauer, professor and chief of the division of reproductive endocrinology at Columbia University and his co-authors, whose report appeared in the American Journal of Perinatology, the group found that compared with women 42 and younger, women in their 50s undergoing in vitro fertilization with donated eggs had similar rates of gestational hypertension, diabetes, Caesarean delivery and premature birth. Read more on this Vancouver Sun article:

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