Open AccessPaternal age and mortality in children
Author(s) -
Jin Liang Zhu,
Mogens Vestergaard,
Kathrine Bang Madsen,
Jørn Olsen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.825
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1573-7284
pISSN - 0393-2990
DOI - 10.1007/s10654-008-9253-3
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , public health , pediatrics , demography , pathology , sociology
Since paternal age correlates with some diseases that have a high case-fatality, a paternal age effect on offspring's survival is expected but unsettled. We examined the association between paternal age and mortality in children in a large population-based cohort taking maternal age and socioeconomic factors into account.
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