Publications by authors named "Anna Gunnerbeck"
Objective: To study school achievement in grade 9 of compulsory school in children with congenital hypothyroidism (CH), both those detected by the national screening program and those with a normal screening result and thus diagnosed later.
Study Design: Nationwide study of children in the Swedish Medical Birth Register (n = 1 547 927) from 1982 through 1997, linked to the neonatal screening CH cohort and the National School Register. Dried blood spot (DBS) samples are collected from all newborn infants, according to the neonatal screening program.
Background: Preterm birth (<37 completed gestational weeks) has been linked to pulmonary hypertension (PH), but the relationship to severity of preterm birth has not been studied.
Objectives: We investigated associations between extremely (<28 weeks), very (28-31 weeks), moderately (32-36 weeks) preterm birth, early-term birth (37-38 weeks) and later PH. Additionally, we explored associations between birthweight for gestational age and PH.
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and the diagnosis CH in the national health registers and to study the effects of lowering screening thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) threshold on the incidence of CH and birth characteristics of screening positive and negative CH children.
Design: This is a nationwide register-study of all children (n = 3 427 240) in the Swedish Medical Birth Register (MBR) and national cohort for screening positive infants (n = 1577) in 1980-2013.
Methods: The study population was further linked to several other Swedish health registers.
Background: The aim was to study whether non-combustible nicotine (Swedish snuff) use in pregnancy is associated with elevated risk of post neonatal mortality, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and to study how cessation before the antenatal booking influenced these risks.
Methods: This was a population-based register study of all infants with information on tobacco exposure in early pregnancy born in Sweden 1999-2019, n = 2,061,514. Self-reported tobacco use in early pregnancy was categorized as nonuse, snuff use, and moderate and heavy smoking.
Background: Associations between tobacco smoking during pregnancy and offspring asthma have been observed, but the role of nicotine and familial factors remains unclear.
Objective: To estimate the association between tobacco use in pregnancy, both smoking and Swedish oral moist snuff, and asthma/wheeze in the offspring, how it varies by the child's age and explore the influence of measured and unmeasured familial confounding.
Methods: Register-based cohort study with sibling comparisons.
Maternal snuff use and cotinine in late pregnancy-A validation study.
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
November 2018
Article Synopsis
- * In a cohort of 381 non-smokers, misclassification occurred where 45% of self-reported snuff users were identified as nonusers in the Medical Birth Register during late pregnancy.
- * The findings indicate that relying on Medical Birth Register data could lead to underestimating the negative impacts of snuff use during pregnancy due to this misclassification.
Objective: To determine if maternal use of snuff (containing high levels of nicotine, low levels of nitrosamines and no combustion products) is associated with an increased risk of oral cleft malformations in the infant and whether cessation of snuff use or smoking before the antenatal booking influences the risk.
Method: A population-based cohort study was conducted on all live born infants, recorded in the Swedish Medical Birth Register from 1999 through 2009 (n = 1 086 213). Risks of oral clefts were evaluated by multivariate logistic regression analyses (using adjusted odds ratios, with 95% confidence intervals [CI]).
Background: Maternal smoking is associated with disturbed cardiorespiratory control in the infant. Despite lacking knowledge of whether the harmful effects of smoking are caused by combustion products in tobacco smoke or by nicotine, it has been argued that nicotine-replacement therapy during pregnancy is safer than smoking.
Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate if the disturbances in cardiorespiratory control associated with maternal smoking are also seen in infants prenatally exposed to snuff.