Cerebral Palsy Risk Factors
What are the risk factors that lead to this condition? Are you at risk of getting Cerebral Palsy? Below you'll find information on each of the known risk factors for this condition.
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Cerebral Palsy Risks
Cerebral palsy occurs in 2 out of every 1,000 births in the developed world.
Risk factors for cerebral palsy include:
- Infection or blood clotting problems during pregnancy
- Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy
- Seizures or intellectual disability in the expectant mother
- Complicated or premature delivery
- Breech birth
- Low Apgar score (a rating of the child's condition just after birth)
- Low birth weight
- Large birth weight
- Type 1 Diabetes in the expectant mother
- Premature Birth
- Multiple births (eg, twins or triplets)
- Small head
- Seizures
- In vitro fertilization (in part due to multiple births associated with in vitro fertilization)
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