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Arch Dis Child 2003;88:726-727 doi:10.1136/adc.88.8.726
  • Acute paediatrics

Pre-eclampsia and febrile convulsions

  1. M Vestergaard1,
  2. O Basso2,
  3. T B Henriksen1,
  4. J Østergaard3,
  5. N J Secher1,
  6. J Olsen2
  1. 1Perinatal Epidemiological Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
  2. 2The Danish Epidemiology Science Center at the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  3. 3Department of Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr M Vestergaard, The Danish Epidemiology Science Center, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark;
    mv{at}dadlnet.dk
  • Accepted 16 November 2002

Abstract

An association between pre-eclampsia and febrile convulsions has been reported, but the association may not be causal. We compared the risk of febrile convulsions in 14 974 children who had been exposed to pre-eclampsia in fetal life with that of 39 210 unexposed children. Children exposed to pre-eclampsia had a slightly increased risk of febrile convulsions, but the association was apparently caused by a shorter gestation in pre-eclamptic women.

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