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The response rate was 88% and 81% among mothers of cases and controls, respectively. The analyses included 292 cases and 427 controls.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A diet during pregnancy lacking both fish and meat was associated with a more than 4-fold increased risk of hypospadias [odds ratio (OR) = 4.6; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.6\u201313.3]. Boys born to obese [body mass index (BMI) \u2265 30] women had a more than 2-fold increased risk of hypospadias (OR = 2.6; 95% CI, 1.2\u20135.7) compared with boys born to mothers with a normal weight (BMI = 20\u201324). Maternal hypertension during pregnancy and absence of maternal nausea increased a boy\u2019s risk of hypospadias 2.0-fold (95% CI, 1.1\u20133.7) and 1.8-fold (95% CI, 1.2\u20132.8), respectively. Nausea in late pregnancy also appeared to be positively associated with hypospadias risk (OR = 7.6; 95% CI, 1.1\u201353).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A pregnancy diet lacking meat and fish appears to increase the risk of hypospadias in the offspring. Other risk associations were compatible with a role for placental insufficiency in the etiology of hypospadias.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1289\/ehp.10791","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,4,8]],"date-time":"2008-04-08T16:11:21Z","timestamp":1207671081000},"page":"1071-1076","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":101,"title":["Maternal and Gestational Risk Factors for Hypospadias"],"prefix":"10.1021","volume":"116","author":[{"given":"Olof","family":"Akre","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Heather A.","family":"Boyd","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, 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