ReviewEuropean journal of epidemiology2023
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register.
Review in European journal of epidemiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 180 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
180 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 230 citations in OpenAlex.
- In utero exposure to methylphenidate, amphetamines and atomoxetine and offspring neurodevelopmental disorders - a population-based cohort study and meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Breastfeeding Duration Is Not Associated With Offspring Inflammatory Bowel Disease Risk in Three Population-Based Birth Cohorts.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2024Pooled it
- Metformin use and preeclampsia risk in women with diabetes: a two-country cohort analysis.BMC medicine · 2024 · on this mapPooled it
- Pre-pandemic care-seeking patterns and subsequent diagnoses of post-COVID condition, post viral fatigue syndrome, and exhaustion disorder: a registry-based cohort study of 208,050 Swedish women.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Cancer Risk in Marfan Syndrome: A Swedish Population-Based Cohort Study.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Article
- Induction of labour versus expectant management after one previous caesarean birth maternal and neonatal outcomes in a population-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Medication use trajectories in myasthenia gravis pregnancies: a population-based drug utilization study.Journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: Analysis From the UK, Norway, and Sweden.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2026Article
- Human papillomavirus infection and risk of cardiovascular disease: A population-based matched cohort study with sibling analysis.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Maternal body mass index in early pregnancy and offspring mortality up to early adulthood: A nationwide cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Validity of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy diagnoses in the Swedish pregnancy register using a contemporary cohort.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Maternal Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Cardiovascular Disease in Offspring.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Postnatal growth and childhood asthma in preterm and full-term twins: A cohort study.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026Article
- Health outcomes following caesarean birth- An observational study of twins discordant for mode of delivery.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2026Article
- Congenital heart defects: familial recurrence patterns in Sweden.European heart journal · 2026Article
- Long-term risk of cardiovascular disease after assisted reproductive technology and infertility: A cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Post-pandemic respiratory infections in children born during or before the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Long-Term Societal Costs After Births Before 24 Weeks of Gestation in Sweden.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Nationwide Temporal Trends in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Treatments in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Pregnancy Over Two Decades in Sweden.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
120 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Pregnancy-related factors are important for short- and long-term health in mothers and offspring. The nationwide population-based Swedish Medical Birth Register (MBR) was established in 1973. The present study describes the content and quality of the MBR, using original MBR data, Swedish-language and international publications based on the MBR.The MBR includes around 98% of all births in Sweden. From 1982 onwards, the MBR is based on prospectively recorded information in standardized antenatal, obstetric, and neonatal records. When the mother and infant are discharged from hospital, this information is forwarded to the MBR, which is updated annually. Maternal data include information from first antenatal visit on self-reported obstetric history, infertility, diseases, medication use, cohabitation status, smoking and snuff use, self-reported height and measured weight, allowing calculation of body mass index. Birth and neonatal data include date and time of birth, mode of delivery, singleton or multiple birth, gestational age, stillbirth, birth weight, birth length, head circumference, infant sex, Apgar scores, and maternal and infant diagnoses/procedures, including neonatal care. The overall quality of the MBR is very high, owing to the semi-automated data extraction from the standardized regional electronic health records, Sweden's universal access to antenatal care, and the possibility to compare mothers and offspring to the Total Population Register in order to identify missing records. Through the unique personal identity numbers of mothers and live-born offspring, the MBR can be linked to other health registers. The Swedish MBR contains high-quality pregnancy-related information on more than 5 million births during five decades.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.