Evidence of a Dose-Response Relationship Between Urbanicity During Upbringing and Schizophrenia Risk | Zendy

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Evidence of a Dose-Response Relationship Between Urbanicity During Upbringing and Schizophrenia Risk

Author(s) -

Carsten Bøcker Pedersen,

Preben Bo Mortensen

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

archives of general psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3636

pISSN - 0003-990X

DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.58.11.1039

Subject(s) - demography , urbanization , sibling , confidence interval , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , residence , danish , population , cohort study , psychology , cohort , relative risk , medicine , psychiatry , developmental psychology , ecology , biology , linguistics , philosophy , sociology

Many studies have demonstrated that an urban birth or upbringing increases schizophrenia risk, but no studies have been able to distinguish between these effects. The objectives of this study were to discriminate the effect of urbanicity at birth from an effect of urbanicity during upbringing, and to identify particularly vulnerable age periods and a possible dose-response relationship between urbanicity during upbringing and schizophrenia risk.

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