Childhood Developmental Milestones and Risk of Adult Cerebrovascular Disease: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have examined the relationship between childhood developmental milestones and risk of adulthood cerebrovascular disease (CeVD). We studied whether the risk of adult CeVD is associated with delayed attainment of motor and language milestones.

Methods

Within the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, a total of 11,688 persons were followed from birth to either death, moving abroad or 54 years of age. CeVD diagnoses, i.e., ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes and transient ischemic attacks, were extracted from national registers with diagnostic coding based on recommendations of the World Health Organization. Cox proportional hazard models stratified by sex were used to estimate associations of motor development and langua

SUBMITTER: Kivela M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12324692 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature