title: Seasonality, birth complications and schizophrenia in a high risk sample.
abstract: It has been suggested that viral infections, more prevalent in the winter months, might increase pregnancy and birth complications, which might in turn be responsible for the excess of winter-born patients with schizophrenia. In this study it was found that the rate of schizophrenia among high risk winter-urban births who had suffered a perinatal complication was significantly greater than that for those who had not, thus supporting the hypothesis.
authors: Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California.
authors: R A
authors: RA
authors: Machón
authors: S A
authors: SA
authors: Mednick
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Schulsinger
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000382:microbiology*; D012306:Risk; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000209:etiology*; D012621:Seasons; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications