- Title
- Pregnancy period and early-life risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease: a Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 study
- Creator
- Blomster, Timo M.; Koivurova, Olli-Pekka; Koskela, Ritva; Herzig, Karl-Heinz; Talley, Nicholas J.; Ronkainen, Jukka
- Relation
- BMC Public Health Vol. 24, no. 1038
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18549-z
- Publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Background: The pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has not been fully elucidated. The aim of this study was to analyze the pregnancy period, perinatal period, and infancy period risk factors for IBD in a well-characterized birth cohort from Northern Finland. Methods: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966) population comprises mothers living in the two northernmost provinces of Finland, Oulu, and Lapland, with dates of delivery between Jan 1st and Dec 31st, 1966 (12 055 mothers, 12 058 live-born children, 96.3% of all births during 1966). IBD patients were identified using hospital registries (from 1966 to 2020) and Social Insurance Institution (SII) registry reimbursement data for IBD drugs (from 1978 to 2016). The data were analyzed by Fisher’s exact test and logistic regression. Results: In total, 6972 individuals provided informed consent for the use of combined SII and hospital registry data. Of those, 154 (2.1%) had IBD (113 [1.6%] had ulcerative colitis (UC), and 41 (0.6%) had Crohn’s disease (CD)). According to multivariate analysis, maternal smoking > 10 cigarettes/day during pregnancy was associated with a nearly 6-fold increased risk of CD in the offspring (OR 5.78, 95% CI 1.70–17.3). Breastfeeding (OR = 0.18, 95% CI 0.08–0.44) and iron supplementation during the first year of life (OR = 0.43, 95% CI 0.21–0.89) were negatively associated with CD. Conclusions: Smoking during pregnancy was associated with the risk of CD while Breastfeeding and oral iron supplementation at infancy were negatively associated with the risk of CD later in life.
- Subject
- cohort studies; Crohn's disease; early life; epidemiology; inflammatory bowel diseases; smoking
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1503836
- Identifier
- uon:55418
- Identifier
- ISSN:1471-2458
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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