“The relative and absolute numbers of Twins in the world are higher than they have ever been since the mid-twentieth century and this is likely to be an all-time high,” Professor Christiaan Monden, of the University of Oxford (UK), one of the study’s authors, said.
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Number of twins being born globally at all-time high , medical study shows
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More than 1.6 million twins are now being born every year, researchers say.
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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.
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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.
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