Heredity of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pelvic girdle pain during and after pregnancy is a major public health problem with significant daily problems for affected women and their families. There is now accumulating evidence that pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain originates from the sacroiliac joints and the pubic symphysis as well as their extra-articular ligaments. However, the heritability of the disease remains to be determined. We hypothesized that there is an increased familial risk of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.

Material and methods

A population-based national database linkage registry study of approximately 9.3 million individuals within 4.2 million families in Sweden with a recruitment period from 1997 to 2018. The Swedish Multi-generation register was used to find female pairs o

SUBMITTER: Kristiansson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10540922 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature