Hazard Ratios (HRs) with 95% CI (confidence interval) of cerebral palsy and epilepsy according to paternal infections before partners’ pregnancy.

1The analyses were done in a restricted population (N = 583,165) of children whose fathers did not have hospitalized infections during their partner’s index pregnancy.2Adjusted for sex, maternal age (five years intervals), maternal education (low, middle, and high), maternal marital status (married, other), family income (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th quartile), and birth year (1982–1986, 1987–1990, 1991–1993, 1994–1998, 1999–2004).3The analyses were done in the entire study population (N = 588,936).4Adjusted for paternal infections during the partner’s pregnancy (yes or no) in addition to the covariates in the restricted analyses.