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Letter to the editor |
Reply to: Multiple-birth risk associated with IVF and extended embryo culture: USA, 2001
1 Womens Health and Fertility Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, NCCDPHP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
2 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Womens Health and Fertility Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K-34, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, USA. E-mail: Dtk3@cdc.gov
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Sir,
We appreciate the interest of Surrey et al. in our analyses of multiple-birth risk associated with extended embryo culture.
Dr Surrey and colleagues are concerned that we chose multiple-birth risk and multiple pregnancy risk as outcome measures instead of presenting our results by multiple order (twins, triplets, etc.). We chose not to separate multiple pregnancies and births by the number of fetuses and infants because our focus is on the overall multiple birth problem, as it is one of