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Investigators from multiple institutions conducted a national cohort study to assess the association of preterm birth and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Investigators used the Swedish birth registry to identify singleton live births from 1973 to 2014. The primary exposure variable was gestational age at birth, which was recorded in the registry by using maternal report of last menstrual period in the 1970s and ultrasonography thereafter. Gestational age was categorized as extremely preterm (22–27 weeks), very preterm (28–33 weeks), late preterm (34–36 weeks), early term (37–38 weeks), full term (39–41 weeks), and post-term (≥42 weeks).
The primary outcome was a diagnosis of CKD from birth to December 31, 2015, determined …
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