Risk of psychiatric disorders among the surviving twins after a co-twin loss

Risk of psychiatric disorders among the surviving twins after a co-twin loss

Losing a co-twin by death is a severely stressful event yet with unknown impact on the surviving twin’s risk of psychiatric disorders. We identified all Swedish-born twins who lost a co-twin by death between 1973 and 2013 (n = 4,528), their 4939 non-twin full siblings, together with 22,640 age- and...

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Main Authors: Huan Song, Henrik Larsson, Fang Fang, Catarina Almqvist, Nancy L Pedersen, Patrik KE Magnusson, Unnur A Valdimarsdóttir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-07-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
loss of co-twin
psychiatric disorder
family design
cohort
relative risk
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/56860

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