Open AccessLabor augmentation during birth and later cognitive ability in young adulthood
Author(s) -
Lonny Stokholm,
Nicole M. Talge,
Gunhild Tidemann Christensen,
Mette Juhl,
Laust Hvas Mortensen,
Katrine StrandbergLarsen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s181012
Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , parity (physics) , sibling , cognition , danish , demography , obstetrics , psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , physics , particle physics , sociology
Synthetic oxytocin for labor augmentation during birth has been linked to negative neurodevelopment effects in children. We examined whether maternal labor augmentation was associated with lower cognitive ability in young adulthoods.