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MENTAL RETARDATION AND MOTHER'S HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY
Author(s) -
Salonen J. T.,
Hein O. P.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1984.tb01601.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , pregnancy , family medicine , pediatrics , library science , computer science , genetics , biology
A comparison of the history of hypertension in the mother during pregnancy was made between a group of 136 mentally retarded children and a randomly selected control group of 122 children. The cases and the controls were 9 or 10 years of age at the time of the survey. A number of potentially confounding factors were controlled for in a multiple logistic model. Maternal hypertension during pregnancy was associated with a relative risk of mental retardation in the offspring of 6.1 with 95% confidence interval of 1.3-28.9.