Smoking is associated with, but does not cause, depressed mood in pregnancy--a mendelian randomization study.
Smokers have a higher prevalence of major depressive episodes and depressive symptoms than the general population, but whether this association is causal, or is due to confounding or reverse causation is uncertain because of the problems inherent in some epidemiological studies. Mendelian randomizat...
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| Main Authors: | Sarah J Lewis, Ricardo Araya, George Davey Smith, Rachel Freathy, David Gunnell, Tom Palmer, Marcus Munafò |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021689&type=printable |
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