• Cerebral palsy among children of immigrants in Denmark and the role of socioeconomic status 

      Petersen, Tanja Gram; Forthun, Ingeborg; Lange, Theis; Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie; Uldall, Peter; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05)
      Background Children of immigrants in Denmark have excess risk for some of the most well-established risk factors for cerebral palsy (CP). Objectives To study differences in risk of CP between children of immigrants and ...
    • Cohort profile: cerebral palsy in the Norwegian and Danish birth cohorts (MOBAND-CP) 

      Tollånes, Mette Christophersen; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Forthun, Ingeborg; Petersen, Tanja Gram; Moster, Dag; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Olsen, Jørn; Wilcox, Allen J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-02)
      Purpose: The purpose of MOthers and BAbies in Norway and Denmark cerebral palsy (MOBAND-CP) was to study CP aetiology in a prospective design. Participants: MOBAND-CP is a cohort of more than 210 000 children, created as ...
    • Parental education and the risk of cerebral palsy for children: an evaluation of causality 

      Forthun, Ingeborg; Lie, Rolv T.; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Haugland Solheim, Magne; Moster, Dag; Wilcox, Allen J.; Mortensen, Laust; Tollånes, Mette Christophersen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Aim To explore whether increasing parental education has a causal effect on risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in the child, or whether unobserved confounding is a more likely explanation. Method We used data from Norwegian ...
    • Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in the child: evidence from two Nordic population-based cohorts 

      Forthun, Ingeborg; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Wilcox, Allen J; Moster, Dag; Petersen, Tanja Gram; Vik, Torstein; Lie, Rolv T.; Uldall, Peter; Tollånes, Mette Christophersen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-06-26)
      Background We investigated whether the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in the child varies by parents’ socioeconomic status, in Denmark and Norway. Methods We included almost 1.3 million children born in Demark during 1981–2007 ...