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Various types of craniostenosis were seen in 685 children. There was a slight and non-statistically significant increased in the rate with maternal age but no effect of parity. No significant effect of maternal smoking, overweight or obesity was seen but the risk increase at high BMI was nearly significant. A period of unwanted childlessness was associated with a marked risk increase for craniostenosis in the child while previous miscarriage was not. No statistically significant effect of maternal use of drugs was seen but the odds ratio after maternal use of anticonvulsants was high but based on only four cases.
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Källén, B. (2014). Craniostenosis. In: Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01472-2_26
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