Maternal and perinatal risk factors for childhood cancer: record linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate maternal and perinatal risk factors for childhood cancer.

Study design

Case-control analysis of linked records from the Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank with the Scottish Cancer Registry and the General Registry of Births and Deaths in Scotland was carried out.

Setting

Aberdeen, Scotland.

Participants

Cases (n=176) comprised children diagnosed with cancer under 15 years or recorded as having died of cancer. Four controls per case were matched by age and gender.

Risk factors tested

Maternal age, body mass index, social class, marital status and smoking as well as pre-eclampsia, antepartum haemorrhage and previous miscarriage, gestational age, birth weight and Apgar scores were compared between groups to test for associatio

SUBMITTER: Bhattacharya S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3902197 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature