Maternal Anxiety and Infants Birthweight and Length of Gestation. A sibling design

Abstract Background The overall aim of this study is to examine the effect of prenatal maternal anxiety on birthweight and gestational age, controlling for shared family confounding using a sibling comparison design. Methods The data on 77,970 mothers and their 91,165 children from the population-ba...

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Main Authors: Mona Bekkhus, Yunsung Lee, Ragnhild Eek Brandlistuen, Sven Ove Samuelsen, Per Magnus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-12-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03620-5