ArticleNeurology2016
Parental rheumatoid arthritis and childhood epilepsy: A nationwide cohort study.
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- Association between disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis and maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Pooled it
- Epilepsy and systemic autoimmune diseases: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Epilepsia open · 2025Article
- A Review of Connecting Bioinformatic Techniques to Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Associated Comorbidities.Current rheumatology reviews · 2025Review
- Causal relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and epilepsy in a European population: a univariate and multivariate Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- The genetic link between systemic autoimmune disorders and temporal lobe epilepsy: A bioinformatics study.Epilepsia open · 2023Article
- Rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of postpartum psychiatric disorders: a Nordic population-based cohort study.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatoid arthritis and follow-up of their offspring.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Article
- Risk of epilepsy in rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-analysis of population based studies and bioinformatics analysis.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2020Article
- The role of inflammation in the development of epilepsy.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2018Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the influence of parental rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on risk of epilepsy.
methodsWe performed a nationwide cohort study including all singletons born in Denmark from 1977 to 2008 (n = 1,917,723) through individual linkage to nationwide Danish registries. The children were followed for an average of 16 years. Main outcome measures were adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for epilepsy with onset in early childhood (29 days-4 years), late childhood (5-15 years), adolescence/adulthood (≥15 years), and at any age until the end of follow-up (December 31, 2010).
resultsCompared to unexposed children, children exposed to maternal RA had an increased risk of early and late childhood epilepsy (adjusted HRs 1.34 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.13-1.60] and 1.26 [95% CI 1.13-1.41]), while children exposed to maternal RA had no increased risk of epilepsy in adolescence/adulthood (HR 1.15 [95% CI 0.92-1.45]). Paternal RA was not associated with an overall risk of epilepsy in the offspring (HR 0.96 [95% CI 0.81-1.15]) or at any age. Children exposed to maternal RA in utero had a more pronounced increased risk of early childhood epilepsy than children exposed to mothers who were diagnosed with RA after childbirth (HR 1.90 [95% CI 1.26-2.86] vs HR 1.26 [95% CI 1.03-1.52], respectively [p = 0.16]).
conclusionsExposure to maternal RA was associated with an increased risk of childhood epilepsy, while exposure to paternal RA was not, which indicates that changes in the intrauterine environment may play a role.
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