Gestational age and childhood leukemia: A meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies.

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that both preterm and postterm infants have an elevated risk of developing AML. In addition, postterm birth increased the risk of childhood leukemia and ALL in cohort studies. However, more studies are warranted to validate these results and explore the biologic mechanisms underlying these relationships. PMID: 29099685 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hematology - Category: Hematology Tags: Hematology Source Type: research