Association between influenza during pregnancy and childhood leukaemia.
This report based on the data available from the Finnish Cancer Registry and from virus isolations gives further support to the association (P=0.04) between maternal influenza of the 1957 "Asian" type and subsequent later leukaemia in the infants. No such association was found from other influenza epidemics.
D000041:Absenteeism; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D007938:Leukemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D009975:Orthomyxoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious