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This study followed up the children from birth to 14 or 15\u00a0years of age (2004\u20132018) and assessed the association of infant and child health characteristics (birthweight, gestational age, use of intensive care unit or ventilator during their neonatal age and obesity) with hazard of any medical condition or disability using the random effect parametric survival regression model. The infant characteristics were measured in the Wave\u00a01 while the children were aged 0\/1\u00a0year and obesity characteristics were measured longitudinally over all the waves up to 14\/15\u00a0years of age.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The hazard rate of any medical condition or disability for all participants was 26.13 per 1000 person-years among children in Australia. This hazard incidence rate was higher among low birthweight (39.07) children compared to the children of normal birthweight (24.89) children. The hazard rate also higher among obese (34.37) children compared to the normal weight children (24.82) and among those who had received after-birth ventilation or intensive care unit emergency services (36.87) compared to those who have not received these services (24.20). The parametric panel regression model also suggests that children with low birthweight were 1.43 times (Hazard Ratio: 1.43, 95% Confidence Interval: 1.05\u20131.94) more likely to have any medical condition or disability than children with normal birthweight. The time to event analyses also revealed that being recipient of after-birth emergencies (HR: 1.47, 95% CI: 1.23\u20131.75), being male children (HR: 1.30, 95% CI: 1.14\u20131.48) or being obese (HR: 1.38, 95% CI: 1.07\u20131.79) significantly increased the likelihood of the incidence of a medical condition or disability among children. The regression model was adjusted for socio-demographic characteristics of children and mothers..<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The study findings suggest that infants with low birth weight, hospital emergency service use and children with obesity would benefit from additional health care monitoring to minimize the risk of any medical condition or disability.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13690-022-00913-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,23]],"date-time":"2022-06-23T03:34:25Z","timestamp":1655955265000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Association of infant and child health characteristics with the hazard of any medical condition or disability in Australian children"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"80","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0208-5725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kabir","family":"Ahmad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Syed Afroz","family":"Keramat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nusrat Jahan","family":"Sathi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Enamul","family":"Kabir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rasheda","family":"Khanam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"913_CR1","unstructured":"National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Disability and Health Overview. 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