Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Sauitz, D. A
Right arrow Articles by Hemminki, E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Sauitz, D. A
Right arrow Articles by Hemminki, E.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

International Journal of Epidemiology 2000;29:189-190
© International Epidemiological Association 2000

Letters to the Editor

Can children's health be predicted by perinatal health?

David A Sauitz

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7400, McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400, USA. E-mail: David_savitz@unc.edu

Sir—The relation of perinatal health to child health was addressed by Gissler et al.1 using unique data resources in Finland. The Medical Birth Register allowed them to study a cohort of over 60 000 births with virtually complete follow-up for most outcomes over a 7-year period. While they documented the expected increased mortality and long-term morbidity associated with being born early or small, they had an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

Mika Gissler, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Pekka Louhiala, Ossi Rahkonen and Elina Hemminki

WHO Regional Office for Europe, 8 Scherfigsvej, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: mgi@who.dk


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?