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Identifying children at high somatic risk (α 1 antitrypsin deficiency): possible long‐term effects on parents' reproduction, marital status and social class level
Author(s) -
Thelin T.,
McNeil T. F.,
Sveger T.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1985.tb02559.x
Subject(s) - social class , term (time) , reproduction , psychology , demography , developmental psychology , marital status , gerontology , medicine , biology , genetics , sociology , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , population
Neonatal identification of children at high somatic risk due to inherited α 1 antitrypsin deficiency (ATD) has been found to elicit a negative emotional reaction in a majority of the parents, at least initially. This sub‐study was conducted to determine whether the identification and follow‐up of the children's ATD had negatively influenced the families' reproduction, marital status and social class level (defined by parental occupation) during the 5 years following the identification of the children's ATD. No such negative effects were found in comparing these characteristics among 61 families with a child with ATD versus 183 control families living in the same area and having a child of the same sex and age. Unexpectedly, the ATD‐children's families (fathers) had a significantly higher social class level, raising the question of a possible gene advantage associated with ATD.