Seasonal Distribution of Psychiatric Births in England

There is general consensus that season of birth influences the risk of developing psychiatric conditions later in life. We aimed to investigate whether the risk of schizophrenia (SC), bipolar affective disorder (BAD) and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD) is influenced by month of birth in England...

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Autores principales: Disanto, Giulio, Morahan, Julia M., Lacey, Melanie V., DeLuca, Gabriele C., Giovannoni, Gavin, Ebers, George C., Ramagopalan, Sreeram V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3319623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22496872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034866
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Sumario:There is general consensus that season of birth influences the risk of developing psychiatric conditions later in life. We aimed to investigate whether the risk of schizophrenia (SC), bipolar affective disorder (BAD) and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD) is influenced by month of birth in England to a similar extent as other countries using the largest cohort of English patients collected to date (n=57,971). When cases were compared to the general English population (n=29,183,034) all diseases showed a seasonal distribution of births (SC p=2.48E-05; BAD p=0.019; RDD p=0.015). This data has implications for future strategies of disease prevention.

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