Re-examining the link between prenatal maternal anxiety and child emotional difficulties, using a sibling design
Author(s) -
Mona Bekkhus,
Yunsung Lee,
R. Nordhagen,
Per Magnus,
Sven Ove Samuelsen,
Anne IH Borge
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyx186
Subject(s) - anxiety , sibling , confounding , medicine , pregnancy , prenatal stress , logistic regression , population , cohort , cohort study , epidemiology , odds ratio , psychology , clinical psychology , demography , pediatrics , offspring , developmental psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , biology , genetics , sociology
Prenatal exposure to maternal anxiety has been associated with child emotional difficulties in a number of epidemiological studies. One key concern, however, is that this link is vulnerable to confounding by pleiotropic genes or environmental family factors.
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