Birth weight, schizophrenia, and adult mental disorder: Is risk confined to the smallest babies?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 923-930

  Abel, Kathryn M ^a   Wicks, Susanne ^b   Susser, Ezra S ^c   Dalman, Christina ^b   Pedersen, Marianne G ^d   Mortensen, Preben Bo ^d   Webb, Roger T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Karolinska Institutet ^*  (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 77956371867     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.100     Document Type: Article

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