• Prepregnancy diabetes and offspring risk of congenital heart disease - A nationwide cohort study 

      Øyen, Nina; Diaz, Lars J; Leirgul, Elisabeth; Boyd, Heather A; Priest, James; Mathiesen, Elisabeth R; Quertermous, Thomas; Wohlfahrt, Jan; Melbye, Mads (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Background—Maternal diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk of offspring congenital heart defects (CHD); however, the causal mechanism is poorly understood. We further investigated this association in a ...
    • Risk of Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring of Affected Mothers and Fathers 

      Øyen, Nina; Boyd, Heather A.; Carstensen, Lisbeth; Søndergaard, Lars; Wohlfahrt, Jan; Melbye, Mads (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Smaller studies have reported a higher offspring risk of congenital heart defects (CHDs) for mothers with CHDs than for fathers with CHDs. In a large population-based study, we investigated whether offspring ...