Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population-based study

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‘Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population-based study’

Open Access paper from the JCPP

A large body of work has reported a link between prenatal exposure to infection and increased psychiatric risk in offspring. However, studies to date have focused primarily on exposure to severe prenatal infections and/or individual psychiatric diagnoses in clinical samples, typically measured at single time points, and without accounting for important genetic and environmental confounders. In this study, we investigated whether exposure to common infections during pregnancy is prospectively associated with repeatedly assessed child psychiatric symptoms in a large population-based study.

Authors: Anna Suleri, Anna-Sophie Rommel, Alexander Neumann, Mannan Luo, Manon Hillegers, Lotje de Witte, Veerle Bergink, Charlotte A. M. Cecil

First published: 30 December 2023

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13923

 

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