Do prenatal risk factors cause psychiatric disorder? Be wary of causal claims.

نویسندگان

  • Anita Thapar
  • Michael Rutter
چکیده

Many prenatal risk factors are known to have adverse consequences on fetal development and there is increasing interest in effects on the mental health of offspring. However, associations with prenatal risk factors may arise because of postnatal risk or through confounders, including inherited ones. As a result, caution is required in assuming causation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

دوره 195 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009