Impaired fetal growth is strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke

Impaired growth prenatally is strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke, but not with occlusive stoke. The results of Hypponen and colleagues (p 1033) are based on a historical cohort study of all 14 611 people born in the Uppsala Academic Hospital between 1915 and 1929. The association between impaired fetal growth and haemorrhagic stroke was not accounted for by socioeconomic confounding factors and was not affected by adjustments for gestational age.


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Prenatal growth and risk of occlusive and haemorrhagic stroke in Swedish men and women born 1915-29: historical cohort study
E Hyppönen, D A Leon, M G Kenward, and H Lithell
BMJ 2001 323: 1033-1034. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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