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The only significant maternal risk factor for infant hydrocephaly (n= 262) was a period of unwanted childlessness. No significant association with maternal drug use was seen – the highest odds ratio was for thyroxine but this was far from statistically significant.
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Källén, B. (2014). Hydrocephaly. In: Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01472-2_8
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