Risk factors for cerebral palsy a case-con trolsticdj iti Greece.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between a series of maternal, antenatal, perinatal, socioecon-omic and environmental variables and the occurrence of cerebral palsy (CP) in a setting different from those in which previous analytic epidemiologic studies had been undertaken. The study was of case-control design and included 103 children with cerebral palsy born between 1984 and 1988 and residents of the Greater Athens area at any time during 1991 and 1992. Controls ivere chosen among the neighbors of the index case or were healthy siblings of children with neurological diseases other than CP seen by the same neurologists as the children with CP; a total of 254 control children were eventually included. Statistical analysis was done by modeling the data through unconditional logistic regression. Statistically significan