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Number of twins being born globally at ‘all-time high’, medical study shows
Almost one in 40 children are being born twins — more than ever before — mainly due to the rapid rise of medically assisted reproduction, according to new medical research.
Key points:
- The rise of assisted reproductive technology in developed countries contributed to the rise
- As did mothers giving birth at an older age, when twinning rates are higher
- Researchers gathered data from 135 countries from 2010-2015
More than 1.6 million twins are now being born every year, researchers said in a paper published by scientific journal Human Reproduction.
“The relative and absolute numbers of twins in the world are higher than they have ever been since the mid-twentieth century,” Christiaan Monden, one of the study’s authors at Oxford University,…
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