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Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England.
- Abstract:
- 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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0034866
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- Public Library of Science
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- PloS one More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- e34866
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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English
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322725
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- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright 2012 Disanto et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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