title: Schizoid personality disorder after prenatal exposure to famine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors tested whether early prenatal exposure to famine was associated with schizophrenia spectrum personality disorder in addition to being associated with schizophrenia per se as shown in a previous study.
  
  
  METHODS
  The risk of schizoid personality disorder, as defined by ICD-6 to ICD-9, in men at age 18 years was compared in birth cohorts that were conceived at the height of the Dutch Hunger Winter famine and in unexposed birth cohorts of 1944-1946 in the famine region of Holland.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The exposed cohort had a significantly greater risk (relative risk = 2.01) of schizoid personality disorder.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prenatal nutritional deficiency was associated with a greater risk of schizoid personality disorder in men at age 18 years.
authors.affiliation: Rosenburg Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Hoek
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Susser
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Lumey
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gorman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D015995:Prevalence; D012306:Risk; D012557:Schizoid Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013217:Starvation / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014857:Warfare