| Early-term Birth (37-38 Weeks) and Mortality in Young Adulthood. | |
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PMID: 23337240 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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BACKGROUND:: Early-term birth (gestational age, 37-38 weeks) has been associated with increased infant mortality relative to later-term birth, but mortality beyond infancy has not been studied. We examined the association between early-term birth and mortality through young adulthood. METHODS:: We conducted a national cohort study of 679,981 singleton births in Sweden in 1973-1979, followed up for all-cause and cause-specific mortality through 2008 (ages 29-36 years). RESULTS:: There were 10,656 deaths in 21.5 million person-years of follow-up. Among those still alive at the beginning of each age range, early-term birth relative to those born at 39-42 weeks was associated with increased mortality in the neonatal period (0-27 days: adjusted hazard ratio = 2.18 [95% confidence interval = 1.89-2.51]), postneonatal period (28-364 days: 1.66 [1.44-1.92]), early childhood (1-5 years: 1.29 [1.10-1.51]), and young adulthood (18-36 years: 1.14 [1.05-1.24]), but not in late childhood/adolescence (6-17 years: 0.97 [0.84-1.12]). In young adulthood, early-term birth was strongly associated with death from congenital anomalies and endocrine disorders, especially diabetes (2.89 [1.54-5.43]). CONCLUSIONS:: In this large national cohort study, early-term birth was independently associated with increased mortality in infancy, early childhood, and young adulthood. Lowest short-term and long-term mortality was among those born at 39-42 weeks. |
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Casey Crump; Kristina Sundquist; Marilyn A Winkleby; Jan Sundquist |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-18 |
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Title: Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) Volume: - ISSN: 1531-5487 ISO Abbreviation: Epidemiology Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9009644 Medline TA: Epidemiology Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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From the aDepartment of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; bCenter for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; and cStanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. |
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