Preterm birth and the risk of chronic disease multimorbidity in adolescence and early adulthood: A population-based cohort study.

<h4>Background</h4>People who were born prematurely have high risks of many individual diseases and conditions in the early part of the life course. However, our knowledge of the burden of multiple diseases (multimorbidity) among prematurely born individuals is limited. We aimed to inves...

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Main Authors: Katriina Heikkilä, Anna Pulakka, Johanna Metsälä, Suvi Alenius, Petteri Hovi, Mika Gissler, Sven Sandin, Eero Kajantie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261952