How much schizophrenia do famines cause?

Autor: Ó Gráda C; University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. cormac.ograda@ucd.ie., Li C; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Lumey LH; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) [Schizophrenia (Heidelb)] 2023 Dec 19; Vol. 9 (1), pp. 90. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 19.
DOI: 10.1038/s41537-023-00416-2
Abstrakt: Since the 1970s, famines have been widely invoked as natural experiments in research into the long-term impact of foetal exposure to nutritional shocks. That research has produced compelling evidence for a robust link between foetal exposure and the odds of developing schizophrenia. However, the implications of that research for the human cost of famines in the longer run have not been investigated. We address the connection between foetal origins and schizophrenia with that question in mind. The impact turns out to be very modest-much less than one per cent of the associated famine death tolls-across a selection of case studies.
(© 2023. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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