Contribution of birth weight to mental health, cognitive and socioeconomic outcomes: two-sample Mendelian randomisation.

Massimiliano OrriJean-Baptiste PingaultGustavo TureckiAnne-Monique NuytRichard E TremblaySylvana M CôtéMarie-Claude Geoffroy

Published in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2021)

These findings support the hypothesis that birth weight could be an important element on the causal pathway to mental health, cognitive and socioeconomic outcomes.

Keyphrases

birth weight
mental health
gestational age
weight gain
body mass index
mental illness
physical activity
skeletal muscle
adipose tissue