Maternal fever during pregnancy and offspring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Scientific Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Gustavson, Kristin ^a,b   Ask, Helga ^a   Ystrom, Eivind ^a,b   Stoltenberg, Camilla ^a,c   Lipkin, W Ian ^d,e   Surén, Pål ^a   Håberg, Siri E ^a   Magnus, Per ^a   Knudsen, Gun Peggy ^a   Eilertsen, Espen ^a   Bresnahan, Michaeline ^d,f   Aase, Heidi ^a   Mjaaland, Siri ^a,b   Susser, Ezra S ^d,f   Hornig, Mady ^d   Reichborn Kjennerud, Ted ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^e Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^f NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NORWAY; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NORWAY; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85069263886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45920-7     Document Type: Article

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