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Preterm birth does not impact risk of MS
Submitted by art on Tue, 2008-08-05 14:56.
Preterm birth (birth at less than 37 weeks gestational age) has been shown to result in long-term health problems including impaired neurological development. There were no significant differences between cases and controls with respect to preterm births in this study of 6585 MS index cases and 2509 spousal controls with preterm birth information from the Canadian Collaborative Project on Genetic Susceptibility to MS.