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© 1976 Oxford University Press

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Birth Order, Maternal Age and Birth Interval in Epidemiology

WILLIAM H. JAMES1

1Associate Research Fellow, The Galton Laboratory, Department of Human Genetics and Biometry, University College London Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, England.

James, W. H. (The Galton Laboratory, Dept. Human Genetics and Biometry, University College, London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, England). Birth order, maternal age and birth interval in epidemiology. International Journal of Epidermiology 1976, 5: 131–132.

Foetal wastage and congenital malformations are not so closely associated with birth order, maternal age and birth interval as is suggested by data pooled across sibships of different sizes. The point could only have been established by data on large numbers of individual sibships.

Maternalage, parity and birth interval are convenient but confusing variables to work with. However if they are to be used, it is essential to recognize that if the condition being studied may be associated with fertility of the parents, one needs to ascertain numbers of completed sibships containing affected cases. Incidence rates by age, parity and birth interval imply nothing by themselves.

Received 3 November 1975


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