Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in the child: evidence from two Nordic population-based cohorts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated whether the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in the child varies by parents' socioeconomic status, in Denmark and Norway.

Methods

We included almost 1.3 million children born in Demark during 1981-2007 and 2.4 million children born in Norway during 1967-2007, registered in the Medical Birth registries. Data on births were linked to Statistics Denmark and Norway to retrieve information on parents' education and relationship status and, in Denmark, also income. CP diagnoses were obtained from linkage with national registries. We used multivariate log-binominal regression models to estimate relative risk (RR) of CP according to parental socioeconomic status.

Results

There was a strong trend of decreasing risk of CP with additional education of both

SUBMITTER: Forthun I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124619 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature