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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
Volume 201, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.06.060
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cohort study; eclampsia; hospitalization; preeclampsia; pregnancy
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- Danish Cancer Society [DP04127]
- National Institutes of Health [5R01AI071386-6]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI071386] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether preeclampsia correlates with the long-term postnatal health of the offspring STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a populalion-based cohort study of 1,618,481 singletons born in Denmark (1978-2004) with up to 27 years of follow-up. We used Cox regression to estimate the associations between preeclampsia and long-term health outcomes of the offspring RESULTS: Children born at term exposed to preeclampsia had an increased risk of a variety of diseases, such as endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (incidence rate ratio, 16, 95% confidence interval, 15-1.7), and diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (incidence rate ratio, 1 5; 95% confidence interval, 13-18) Children born preterm exposed to preeclampsia had a similar pattern of hospitalizations compared with the children born preterm unexposed to preeclampsia, although they had a decreased risk of cerebral palsy (incidence rate ratio, 0 7, 95% confidence interval, 06-09) CONCLUSION: Preeclampsia was associated with an increased risk of being hospitalized for a number of diseases, especially in the children born at term.
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