Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

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Analysis goals, error‐cost sensitivity, and analysis hacking: Essential considerations in hypothesis testing and multiple comparisons	41
Preconception exposures and adverse pregnancy, birth and postpartum outcomes: Umbrella review of systematic reviews	25
Extreme heat and its association with social disparities in the risk of spontaneous preterm birth	24
Cohort profile: The COPENHAGEN Minipuberty Study—A longitudinal prospective cohort of healthy full‐term infants and their parents	21
Occurrence of fatal police violence during pregnancy and hazard of preterm birth in California	20
The association between wildfire exposure in pregnancy and foetal gastroschisis: A population‐based cohort study	20
Lost to follow‐up in the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study	20
Changes in preterm birth and caesarean deliveries in the United States during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic	20
Patient characteristics associated with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in parturients admitted for labour and delivery in Massachusetts during the spring 2020 surge: A prospective cohort study	19
Severe maternal morbidity at delivery and postpartum readmission in the United States	18
Air pollution and fecundability: Results from a Danish preconception cohort study	18
SARS‐CoV‐2 during pregnancy and associated outcomes: Results from an ongoing prospective cohort	17
Maternal age at birth and neonatal mortality: Associations from 67 low‐income and middle‐income countries	17
Infants’ prenatal exposure to opioids and the association with birth outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	16
SARS‐CoV‐2 infections among neonates born to pregnant people with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: Maternal, pregnancy and birth characteristics	15
Effects of public health measures during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic on the winter respiratory syncytial virus epidemic: An interrupted time series analysis	15
Multidisciplinary and neuroimaging findings in preterm born very low birthweight individuals from birth to 28 years of age: A systematic review of a Norwegian prospective cohort study	14
Racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection amongst children	14
Is prenatal diet associated with the composition of the vaginal microbiome?	14
Risk of large for gestational age births at early, full and late term in relation to pre‐pregnancy body mass index: Mediation by gestational diabetes status	14
The association between late preterm birth and cardiometabolic conditions across the life course: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	14
Epidemiology of Pierre‐Robin sequence in Europe: A population‐based EUROCAT study	14
Accuracy of self‐reported birth outcomes relative to birth certificate data in an Internet‐based prospective cohort study	14
Public health indicators for cerebral palsy: A European collaborative study of the Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe network	13
The Nutrition in Early Life and Asthma (NELA) birth cohort study: Rationale, design, and methods	13

Maternal overnutrition elevates offspring’s blood pressure—A systematic review and meta‐analysis	13
Disparities in early initiation of breast feeding and prelacteal feeding: A study of low‐ and middle‐income countries	13
Maternal risk factors for congenital limb deficiencies: A population‐based case–control study	12
The maternal health study: Study design update for a prospective cohort of first‐time mothers and their firstborn children from birth to age ten	12
Maternal factors and risk of spontaneous preterm birth due to high ambient temperatures in New South Wales, Australia	12
Parent‐recorded videos of infant spontaneous movement: Comparisons at 3–4 months and relationships with 2‐year developmental outcomes in extremely preterm, extremely low birthweight and term‐born infa	12
Effect of prenatal screening on trends in perinatal mortality associated with congenital anomalies before and after the introduction of prenatal screening: A population‐based study in the Northern Net	11
Risk of non‐syndromic orofacial clefts by maternal rural‐urban residence and race/ethnicity: A population‐based case‐control study in Washington State 1989‐2014	11
Recurrence of severe maternal morbidity: A population‐based cohort analysis of California women	11
Time trends, geographic variation and risk factors for gastroschisis in Canada: A population‐based cohort study 2006–2017	11
High ambient temperature and child emergency and hospital visits in New York City	11
Incidence of retinopathy of prematurity treatment in extremely preterm infants in China	10
COVID‐19 in pregnancy—what study designs can we use to assess the risk of congenital anomalies in relation to COVID‐19 disease, treatment and vaccination?	10
Trends in survival, perinatal morbidities and two‐year neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely low‐birthweight infants over four decades	10
Pregnancy‐related outcomes among women with physical disabilities: A systematic review	10
Antibiotic treatment of bacterial vaginosis to prevent preterm delivery: Systematic review and individual participant data meta‐analysis	10
Association between prenatal antibiotic exposure and autism spectrum disorder among term births: A population‐based cohort study	10
Subsequent risk of stillbirth, preterm birth, and small for gestational age: A cross‐outcome analysis of adverse birth outcomes	9
Rating the seriousness of maternal and child health outcomes linked with pregnancy weight gain	9
Early coronavirus disease 2019 restrictive measures and changes in maternal characteristics, use of assisted reproductive technology, and stillbirth	9
Residential particulate matter, proximity to major roads, traffic density and traffic volume as risk factors for preterm birth in California	9
Childhood patterns of overweight and wheeze and subsequent risk of current asthma and obesity in adolescence	9
Temporal and geographical variations in survival of children born with congenital anomalies in Europe: A multi‐registry cohort study	9
Mother‐reported pain experience between ages 7 and 10: A prospective study in a population‐based birth cohort	9
Air pollution and preterm birth: A time‐stratified case‐crossover study in the San Joaquin Valley of California	9
Breast feeding and timing of puberty in boys and girls: A nationwide cohort study	9
Severe maternal morbidity and other perinatal complications among women with physical, sensory, or intellectual and developmental disabilities	9
Childhood cancer survival and avoided deaths in Australia, 1983–2016	9
Incidence, antibiotic treatment and outcomes of lactational mastitis: Findings from The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)	8
Pregnancy outcomes in women living with HIV and HIV‐negative women in South Africa: Cohort analysis based on bias‐corrected gestational age	8
Association between first and second stage of labour duration and mode of delivery: A population‐based cohort study	8
The Stockholm–Gotland perinatal cohort—A population‐based cohort including longitudinal data throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period	8
Examining the role of pre‐pregnancy weight and gestational weight gain in allergic disease development among offspring: A population‐based cohort study in Ontario, Canada	8
Measuring severe neonatal morbidity using hospital discharge data in France	7
Bone mineral density in very low birthweight adults—A sibling study	7
Improving the external validity of Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids trial findings	7
Vitamin D status at birth and acute respiratory infection hospitalisation during infancy	7
Prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy outcome of major structural anomalies detectable in the first trimester: A population‐based cohort study in the Netherlands	7
Small for gestational age preterm infants and later adiposity and height: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	7
The validity of self‐reported SARS‐CoV‐2 results among postpartum respondents	7
Birth outcomes affecting infants of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	7
Point: Uncertainty about estimating the risks of COVID‐19 during pregnancy	7
The role of parental education on the relationship between gestational age and school outcomes	7
Maternal early‐pregnancy ferritin and offspring neurodevelopment: A prospective cohort study from gestation to school age	7
A population‐based study of concurrent prescriptions of opioid analgesic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications during pregnancy and risk for adverse birth outcomes	7
Severity of illness by pregnancy status among laboratory‐confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 infections occurring in reproductive‐aged women in Colombia	7
The challenges of heterogeneity in gestational age and birthweight inclusion criteria for research synthesis on very preterm birth and childhood cognition: An umbrella review and meta‐regression analy	7
Racial inequity in preterm delivery among college‐educated women: The role of racism	6
Exposure to the early COVID‐19 pandemic and early, moderate and overall preterm births in the United States: A conception cohort approach	6
Adverse psychosocial factors in pregnancy and preterm delivery	6

Effects of previous birth interval length on child outcomes can be estimated in a sibling analysis even when there are only two siblings	6
Evidence of under‐reporting of early‐onset preeclampsia using register data	6
Multilevel modelling for measuring interaction of effects between multiple categorical variables: An illustrative application using risk factors for preeclampsia	6
Small for date preterm infants and risk of higher blood pressure in later life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Cohort Profile: The Shanghai Sleep Birth Cohort Study	6
Endometriosis diagnosis, staging and typology and adverse pregnancy outcome history	6
Maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption and gastroschisis in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011	6
Chronic hypertension and risk of preterm delivery: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents to Adult Health	6
In utero acetaminophen exposure and child neurodevelopmental outcomes: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Early factors associated with risk of developmental coordination disorder in very preterm children: A prospective area‐based cohort study in Italy	6
Early childhood weight gain: Latent patterns and body composition outcomes	6
Short interpregnancy interval and pregnancy outcomes: How important is the timing of confounding variable ascertainment?	6
Maternal social risk, gestational age at delivery, and cognitive outcomes among adolescents born extremely preterm	6
Performance of diagnostic coding and laboratory testing results to measure COVID‐19 during pregnancy and associations with pregnancy outcomes	6
Prescribed medicine use and extent of off‐label use according to age in a nationwide sample of Australian children	6
Wildfires in Pregnancy: Potential Threats to the Newborn	6
Antepartum severe maternal morbidity: A population‐based study of risk factors and delivery outcomes	5
Adverse motor outcome after paediatric ischaemic stroke: A nationwide cohort study	5
Postnatal exposure to ambient temperature and rapid weight gain among infants delivered at term gestations: a population‐based cohort study	5
Why did preterm birth rates fall during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	5
The clinical performance and population health impact of birthweight‐for‐gestational age indices at term gestation	5
Household pesticide exposures and infant gross motor development in the MADRES cohort	5
Association between toxic metals, vitamin D and preterm birth in theMaternal–Infantresearch on environmental chemicals study	5
Cohort profile update: The Canadian Maternal–Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals Child Development study (MIREC‐CD PLUS)	5
Risk of stroke the year following a delivery after using assisted reproductive technologies	5
Exploring the utility of synthetic data to extract more value from sensitive health data assets: A focused example in perinatal epidemiology	5
Levels and potential drivers of under‐five mortality sex ratios in low‐ and middle‐income countries	5
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The matrix revolutions: How databases and database linkages will transform epidemiologic research	5
Survey of data collection methods and retention strategies in European birth cohorts of children and adults born very preterm	5
Initial respiratory support modality and outcome in preterm infants with less than 32 weeks of gestation in China: A multicentre retrospective cohort study	5
The association between caesarean and postnatal psychological distress: Effect modification by mental health history	4
Detection of major congenital malformations depends on length of follow‐up in Swedish National Health Register Data: Implications for pharmacoepidemiological research on medication safety i	4
Menstrual cycle length and adverse pregnancy outcomes among women in Project Viva	4
Bounding the average causal effect in Mendelian randomisation studies with multiple proposed instruments: An application to prenatal alcohol exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	4
Inequality in early childhood chronic health conditions requiring hospitalisation: A data linkage study of health service utilisation and costs	4
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: Conducting within‐woman comparison studies with only one exposure observation per woman	4
Parent report of child behaviour: Findings from the Flint Registry cohort	4
Remapping racial and ethnic inequities in severe maternal morbidity: The legacy of redlining in California	4
Relationship between pre‐pregnancy maternal body mass index and infant weight trajectories in HIV‐exposed and HIV‐unexposed infants	4
Forecasting childhood adversities from conditions of birth	4
Overuse of antenatal visits and ultrasounds in low‐risk women: A national population‐based study	4
Prospective associations of lifestyle patterns in early childhood with socio‐emotional and behavioural development and BMI: An outcome‐wide analysis of the EDEN mother–child coho	4
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in pregnancy: Lessons learned from the first pandemic wave	4
Early postnatal growth and subsequent neurodevelopment in children delivered at term: The ELFE cohort study	4
Time of delivery among low‐risk women at 37–42 weeks of gestation and risks of stillbirth and infant mortality, and long‐term neurological morbidity	4
The effect of hospital phototherapy on early breastmilk feeding	4
Little evidence for long‐term harm from antenatal corticosteroids in a population‐based very low birthweight young adult cohort	4
Risk of adverse maternal and foetal outcomes associated with inactivated influenza vaccination in first trimester of pregnancy	4
Multiple marginalisation and unintended pregnancy among racial/ethnic and sexual minority college women	4
Economic costs and health utility values associated with extremely preterm birth: Evidence from the EPICure2 cohort study	4
The association of gestational age at birth with trajectories of early childhood developmental delay among late preterm and early term born children: A longitudinal analysis of All Our Families pregna	4
Risk factors for very preterm delivery out of a level III maternity unit: The EPIPAGE‐2 cohort study	3
Comparing adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and syphilis infections and co‐infections in pregnancy	3
Machine learning to study placental pathology: Risk of reification and other considerations	3
The COVID‐19 pandemic, preterm birth and the potential role of composition of gestations	3
Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children after prenatal marijuana exposure	3
Interpregnancy interval and preterm delivery: An empirical comparison of between‐persons and within‐sibship designs	3
All day‐long pacifier use and intelligence quotient in childhood: A birth cohort study	3
Paternal and maternal birthweight and offspring risk of macrosomia at term gestations: A nationwide population study	3
Temporal changes in pre‐existing health conditions five years prior to pregnancy in British Columbia, Canada, 2000–2019	3
Association between interpregnancy interval and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: Effect modification by maternal age	3
The effect of the 2009 WIC revision on maternal and child health: A quasi‐experimental study	3
National data linkage assessment of live births and deaths in Mexico: Estimating under‐five mortality rate ratios for vulnerable newborns and trends from 2008 to 2019	3
Reimagining methodological considerations for research studies using ‘big’ administrative data sets	3
Impacts of climate change on reproductive, perinatal and paediatric health	3
Periconceptional antibiotic use and spontaneous abortion: A prospective cohort study	3
Caesarean delivery and pubertal timing in boys and girls: A Danish population‐based cohort study	3
Association between cumulative maternal exposures related to inflammation and child attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A cohort study	3
Rising global temperatures is likely to exacerbate persistent disparities in preterm birth	3
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia subtypes: Comparing birth prevalence, occurrence by maternal age, and mortality in a national birth cohort	3
Third trimester maternal vitamin D and early childhood socioemotional development	3
Trends in survival of children with severe congenital heart defects by gestational age at birth: A population‐based study using administrative hospital data for England	3
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Cohort profile: The PreEclampsia, Angiogenesis, Cardiac dysfunction and Hypertension (PEACH) Study	3
Out‐of‐hospital births and infant mortality in the United States: Effect measure modification by rural maternal residence	3
Are paternal or grandmaternal age associated with higher probability of trisomy 21 in offspring? A population‐based, matched case‐control study, 1995‐2015	3
Trends in prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies in Western Australia between 1980 and 2020: A population‐based study	3
Multifoetal gestations mediate the effect of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) on ischaemic placental disease in autologous oocyte IVF more than donor oocyte IVF	3
Maternal obesity and childhood asthma risk: Exploring mediating pathways	3

Maternal periconceptional folic acid supplements use and fetus risk for limb defects	3
Long‐term cardiovascular mortality in women with twin pregnancies by lifetime reproductive history	3
Heterogeneity in the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality after the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy across mothers' lifetime reproductive history	3
Self‐reported executive function problems in adults born very low birthweight	3
Advancing the methodological quality of studies on short birth spacing and adverse pregnancy outcomes: Where to next?	3
Maternal stress during pregnancy and gestational duration: A cohort study from the Danish National Birth Cohort	3
Estimating the effect of diuretics and inhaled corticosteroids for evolving bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants	2
Infant sex at birth and long‐term maternal mortality	2
Organic food consumption and fecundability in a preconception cohort study of Danish couples trying to conceive	2
Prenatal and postnatal exposure to PM2.5 and the risk of tic disorders	2
Machine learning‐based placental clusters and their associations with adverse pregnancy outcomes	2
Characterisation of personalised air pollution exposure in pregnant women participating in a birth cohort study	2
Heterogeneity of design features in studies included in systematic reviews with meta‐analysis of cognitive outcomes in children born very preterm	2
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Assessing cardiovascular disease risk in women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: A guidance paper for studies using administrative data	2
Rigour and reproducibility in perinatal and paediatric epidemiologic research using big data	2
Placental Abruption and Cardiovascular Event Risk (PACER): Design, data linkage, and preliminary findings	2
Community testing practices for autism within the autism and developmental disabilities monitoring network	2
Growth patterns by birth size of preterm children born at 24–29 gestational weeks for the first 3 years	2
Overuse of antenatal care amongst low‐risk patients in France: Study underscores the need for an evidence‐based standard for adequate antenatal care	2
Pregnancy‐associated mortality due to cardiovascular disease: Impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy	2
Participation in survey research among mothers with a recent live birth: A comparison of mothers with living versus deceased infants − Findings from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 20	2
Prevalence and correlates of very rapid repeat pregnancy: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, United States, 2009–2020	2
The association between multidimensional sleep health and gestational weight gain	2
Causes of ART‐related outcomes in the COVID‐19 era	2
Trajectories of cardiovascular risk predict pregnancy outcomes: The Bogalusa Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study	2
Determinants of nutritional status during the first 1000 days of life in Lebanon: Sex of the child matters	2
Comparison of stillbirth trends over two decades in Wales, United Kingdom and Western Australia: An international retrospective cohort study	2
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Structural racism, nativity and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes among Black women	2
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Point: Antenatal corticosteroid treatment in the late preterm period—Are the benefits worth the potential risks?	2
Geographic variation in caesarean delivery in India	2
Levothyroxine initiation and the risk of pregnancy loss among pregnant women with subclinical hypothyroidism: An observational study emulating a target trial	2
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection during pregnancy and preterm birth in Massachusetts from March 2020 through March 2021	2
Gestational thyroid hormone concentrations and risk of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study	2
History of multifetal gestation and long‐term maternal mortality	2
Drug utilisation in children and adolescents before and after the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Interrupted time‐series analyses in three European countries	2
Group B Streptococcus real‐time PCR may potentially reduce intrapartum maternal antibiotic treatment	2
Outcomes in extremely low‐birthweight infants: What can we learn by comparing epidemiological studies over time?	2
Severity of preterm birth and the risk of pulmonary hypertension in childhood: A population‐based cohort study in Sweden	2
Patterns of paternal medication dispensation around the time of conception	2
Evaluating participant engagement in a preconception cohort study in relation to the Dobbs decision	1
Cerebral palsy as a public health indicator	1
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A prospective cohort study examining the association between the periconceptual vaginal microbiota and first‐trimester miscarriage in Kenyan women	1
Cohort profile: The Copenhagen Analgesic Study—The COPANA cohort	1
Counter‐point: You can’t always get what you want…: Ideal vs. operational measures in the study of COVID‐19 and pregnancy	1
Case–control study of exclusive breast feeding and severe bronchiolitis in the United States	1
Implications for quantifying early life growth trajectories of term‐born infants using INTERGROWTH‐21st newborn size standards at birth in conjunction with World Health Organization child growth stand	1
Cohort profile: The Assessing Imperial Valley Respiratory Health and the Environment (AIRE) study	1
Lack of consensus on the definition of severe congenital heart defects for research: A challenge for comparing international studies	1
Selecting exposure data and identifying relevant exposure windows for birth outcome studies	1
Population‐level changes in perinatal death for pregnancies prior to and during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A pregnancy cohort analysis	1
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Ramadan exposure during early pregnancy and risk of stillbirth in Arab women living in Canada	1
Risks of congenital malformations and neonatal intensive care unit admissions with gabapentin use in pregnancy: A cohort study and scoping review with meta‐analysis	1
Point: Abnormalities of foetal growth—Is it time to move towards a personalised medicine approach to predict adverse neonatal outcomes?	1
Beyond COVID‐19: Equitable epidemiology for studying the impact of maternal infections on neonatal mortality and morbidity	1
Importance of considering infection during pregnancy: An underappreciated and preventable perinatal concern	1
Is it time to re‐think how we look for teratogenic effects in exposure cohort studies?	1
Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) 34th Annual Meeting Abstracts 2021 Virtual Conference	1
Association between maternal cigarette smoking cessation and risk of preterm birth in Western New York	1
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Effect of preschool childcare on school‐aged children’s adiposity in Quebec, Canada	1
Characterisation and validation of lactation information from structured electronic health records for use in pharmacoepidemiological studies	1
Low‐dose aspirin, maternal cardiometabolic health, and offspring respiratory health 9 to 14 years after delivery: Findings from the EAGeR Follow‐up Study	1
The Pregnancy, Arsenic, and Immune Response (PAIR) Study in rural northern Bangladesh	1
Association of maternal cancer with congenital anomalies in offspring	1
Maternal hepatitis C prevalence and trends by county, US: 2016–2020	1
Risks of adverse perinatal outcomes in relation to maternal depressive symptoms: A prospective cohort study in Kenya	1
Malpresentation and autism spectrum disorder in the study to explore early development	1
Validity of ICD‐10 diagnosis codes for placenta accreta spectrum disorders	1
Antenatal corticosteroids and outcomes into adulthood	1
Differences in birthweight by maternal and paternal nativity status in Canada	1
Maternal body mass index and cerebral palsy in children: A systematic review and dose–response meta‐analysis	1
Hospital and emergency department discharge against medical advice in Western Australian Aboriginal children aged 0–4 years from 2002 to 2018: A cohort study	1
Patterns of multiple chronic conditions in pregnancy: Population‐based study using latent class analysis	1
The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of interpregnancy interval effects: Who contributes, and does it matter?	1
The impact of setting a pregnancy weight gain goal on total weight gain	1
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Association between vaginal bleeding in pregnancy that resulted in delivery and risk of cancer: A Danish registry‐based cohort study	1
Counterpoint: Are abnormal fetal growth indices valid predictors of neonatal morbidity and mortality?	1
Drug‐drug interactions in pregnancy: An important frontier for pharmacoepidemiology	1
Point: Setting realistic expectations for the evaluation of intrauterine growth charts	1
The association between the use of fertility indicators and fecundability in a Danish preconception cohort	1
No, it is not too good to be true	1
Paternal medication dispensation around conception: A call to answer many unanswered questions	1
Bias analyses to investigate the impact of differential participation: Application to a birth defects case‐control study	1
Understanding the opportunity and application of synthetic data in healthcare	1
Long interpregnancy interval and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: Difficulties in interpreting and translating data to clinical practice	1
Type of infertility and prevalence of congenital malformations	1
Risk of spontaneous abortion after periconceptional medication use: Time to tackle the methodological challenges	1
Vanilla is not always best: Why to try other flavours of study methodology	1
Prenatal ultrasound use and risk of autism spectrum disorder: Findings from the case‐control Study to Explore Early Development	1