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Discovery of the day · Public Health
Gestational age at birth and the risk of disability pension in early adulthood: a whole-population register study of people born in Finland in 1987–90
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Key finding
Medicine · Public Health
Discovery of the day
A whole-population register study of over 228,000 Finnish individuals found that preterm, early-term, and post-term births are all associated with a significantly elevated risk of receiving a disability pension in early adulthood. Researchers demonstrated that those born very preterm (23–31 weeks) faced a more than fivefold higher risk (HR 5.20) compared to full-term births, with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, depression, and schizophrenia being the most common underlying diagnoses. For a nurse and psychologist focused on chronic disease and prevention, this finding underscores the lifelong trajectory of perinatal health exposures and highlights the need for early screening and targeted behavioral interventions for at-risk populations to mitigate long-term work disability.
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