Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population-based study.
Anna SuleriAnna-Sophie RommelAlexander NeumannMannan LuoManon HillegersLotje de WitteVeerle BerginkCharlotte A M CecilPublished in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines (2023)
Our research adds to evidence that common prenatal infections may be a risk factor for psychiatric symptoms in children. We also extend previous findings by showing that these associations are present early on, and that rather than changing over time, they persist into adolescence. However, unmeasured confounding may still explain in part these associations. In the future, employing more advanced causal inference designs will be crucial to establishing the degree to which these effects are causal.