Gestational age at birth and type 1 diabetes in childhood and young adulthood: a nationwide register study in Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Adolescent Children Fetal growth Gestational age Preterm birth Type 1 diabetes

Journal

Diabetologia
ISSN: 1432-0428
Titre abrégé: Diabetologia
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0006777

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
13 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 29 03 2023
accepted: 01 03 2024
medline: 13 4 2024
pubmed: 13 4 2024
entrez: 13 4 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Children and adults born preterm have an increased risk of type 1 diabetes. However, there is limited information on risk patterns across the full range of gestational ages, especially after extremely preterm birth (23-27 weeks of gestation). We investigated the risk of type 1 diabetes in childhood and young adulthood across the full range of length of gestation at birth. Data were obtained from national registers in Finland, Norway and Sweden. In each country, information on study participants and gestational age was collected from the Medical Birth Registers, information on type 1 diabetes diagnoses was collected from the National Patient Registers, and information on education, emigration and death was collected from the respective national register sources. Individual-level data were linked using unique personal identity codes. The study population included all individuals born alive between 1987 and 2016 to mothers whose country of birth was the respective Nordic country. Individuals were followed until diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, death, emigration or end of follow-up (31 December 2016 in Finland, 31 December 2017 in Norway and Sweden). Gestational age was categorised as extremely preterm (23-27 completed weeks), very preterm (28-31 weeks), moderately preterm (32-33 weeks), late preterm (34-36 weeks), early term (37-38 weeks), full term (39-41 weeks; reference) and post term (42-45 weeks). HRs and 95% CIs from country-specific covariate-adjusted Cox regression models were combined in a meta-analysis using a common-effect inverse-variance model. Among 5,501,276 individuals, 0.2% were born extremely preterm, 0.5% very preterm, 0.7% moderately preterm, 4.2% late preterm, 17.7% early term, 69.9% full term, and 6.7% post term. A type 1 diabetes diagnosis was recorded in 12,326 (0.8%), 6364 (0.5%) and 16,856 (0.7%) individuals at a median age of 8.2, 13.0 and 10.5 years in Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Individuals born late preterm or early term had an increased risk of type 1 diabetes compared with their full-term-born peers (pooled, multiple confounder-adjusted HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.07, 1.18; and 1.15, 95% CI 1.11, 1.18, respectively). However, those born extremely preterm or very preterm had a decreased risk of type 1 diabetes (adjusted HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.45, 0.88; and 0.78, 95% CI 0.67, 0.92, respectively). These associations were similar across all three countries. Individuals born late preterm and early term have an increased risk of type 1 diabetes while individuals born extremely preterm or very preterm have a decreased risk of type 1 diabetes compared with those born full term.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38613666
doi: 10.1007/s00125-024-06139-y
pii: 10.1007/s00125-024-06139-y
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Subventions

Organisme : Research Council of Finland
ID : 315690
Organisme : Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
ID : 733280
Organisme : Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
ID : 874739
Organisme : The Joint Research Committee of St. Olavs University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU
ID : 30223/2022
Organisme : European Commission Horizon Europe
ID : 101057739

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Johanna Metsälä (J)

Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland. johanna.metsala@thl.fi.

Kari Risnes (K)

Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Children's Clinic, St Olav University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.

Martina Persson (M)

Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Clinical Science and Education Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Sachsska Childrens' and Youth Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Riitta Veijola (R)

Clinical Medicine Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

Anna Pulakka (A)

Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Research Unit of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

Katriina Heikkilä (K)

Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

Suvi Alenius (S)

Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

Mika Gissler (M)

Department of Knowledge Brokers, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Academic Primary Health Care Centre, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Signe Opdahl (S)

Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Sven Sandin (S)

Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Eero Kajantie (E)

Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Clinical Medicine Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

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