Maternal and perinatal risk factors for childhood cancer: record linkage study

Maternal and perinatal risk factors for childhood cancer: record linkage study

OBJECTIVE To investigate maternal and perinatal risk factors for childhood cancer. STUDY DESIGN Case-control analysis of linked records from the Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank with the Scottish Cancer Registry and the General Registry of Births and Deaths in Scotland was carried out. SETTING Aberdeen, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS Cases (n=176) comprised children diagnosed with cancer ...

Influence of maternal and perinatal factors on subsequent hospitalisation for asthma in children: evidence from the Oxford record linkage study

BACKGROUND There is much interest in the possibility that perinatal factors may influence the risk of disease in later life. We investigated the influence of maternal and perinatal factors on subsequent hospital admission for asthma in children. METHODS Analysis of data from the Oxford record linkage study (ORLS) to generate a retrospective cohort of 248 612 records of births between 1970 and...

Maternal and perinatal factors associated with hospitalised infectious mononucleosis in children, adolescents and young adults: record linkage study

BACKGROUND There is current interest in the role of perinatal factors in the aetiology of diseases that occur later in life. Infectious mononucleosis (IM) can follow late primary infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and has been shown to increase the risk of multiple sclerosis and Hodgkin's disease. Little is known about maternal or perinatal factors associated with IM or its sequelae. ME...

Perinatal Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia

Naumburg, E. 2002. Perinatal Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1111. 44 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91 –554 –5205-1 The aim of the studies described in this thesis was to assess the association between certain perinatal factors and the risk of childhood lymphatic and myeloid leukemia and infant...

Record-linkage is a feasible method for investigating the relationship between perinatal factors, maternal and neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone