Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England.
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...
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| author | Giulio Disanto Julia M Morahan Melanie V Lacey Gabriele C DeLuca Gavin Giovannoni George C Ebers Sreeram V Ramagopalan |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-64668a8c8ccb4f8191d12128129a7fed2025-08-20T02:30:39ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0174e3486610.1371/journal.pone.0034866Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England.Giulio DisantoJulia M MorahanMelanie V LaceyGabriele C DeLucaGavin GiovannoniGeorge C EbersSreeram V RamagopalanThere 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.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034866&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Giulio Disanto Julia M Morahan Melanie V Lacey Gabriele C DeLuca Gavin Giovannoni George C Ebers Sreeram V Ramagopalan Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England. PLoS ONE |
| title | Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England. |
| title_full | Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England. |
| title_fullStr | Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England. |
| title_short | Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England. |
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