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Objective To investigate the relation between maternal body mass index and hospital admissions for infections in their offspring, and to identify potentially modifiable mediators.Design Longitudinal cohort study.Setting Born in Bradford longitudinal, multi-ethnic birth cohort, Bradford, UK. Secondary analysis linked to routine hospital admission data, January 2007 to 3 October 2022.Participants 9540 singleton births between 2007 and 2011, born to 9037 mothers, followed up from birth to abou...| BMJ Medicine
Objectives To explore the effect of changes in national clinical recommendations in 2019 that extended provision of survival focused care to babies born at 22 weeks’ gestation in England and Wales.Design Population based cohort study.Setting England and Wales, comprising routine data for births and hospital records.Participants Babies alive at the onset of care in labour at 22 weeks+0 days to 22 weeks+6 days and at 23 weeks+0 days to 24 weeks+6 days for comparison purposes between 1 January...| BMJ Medicine