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Information on gestational age, birth weight, and Apgar score was obtained from the Danish Medical Birth Registry. We used Cox proportional hazard models to estimate the incidence rate ratio of epilepsy for children who were exposed to preeclampsia or eclampsia in prenatal life.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>RESULTS. We identified 45288 (2.9%) children who were exposed to preeclampsia (34823 to mild, 7043 to severe, and 3422 to unspecified preeclampsia) and 654 (0.04%) to eclampsia during their prenatal life. We identified 20260 people who received a diagnosis of epilepsy during up to 27 years of follow-up in the entire cohort. Prenatal exposure to preeclampsia was associated with an increased risk for epilepsy among children with a gestational age at birth of at least 37 weeks. For mild preeclampsia, the incidence rate ratios were 1.16 among children born at term and 1.68 for children born postterm; for severe preeclampsia, the incidence rate ratios were 1.41 among children born at term and 2.57 among children born postterm. No associations between preeclampsia and epilepsy were found among children who were born preterm. Eclampsia was associated with epilepsy with an incidence rate ratio of 1.29 for children born at term and 5.03 for children born postterm.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>CONCLUSIONS. 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