Risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in offspring of mothers with infections during pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal infections during pregnancy are common events that have been suggested to be risk factors for Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offspring. Only a few studies have been conducted to date and results are conflicting. The current study investigates the associations between specific groups of prenatal maternal infections and offspring ADHD, considering timing of exposure and the role of fever.

Methods

We used data from the prospective Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), including more than 112,000 pregnancies, linked with data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway and the Norwegian Patient Registry to estimate odds ratios for the likelihood that children develop ADHD after being exposed to maternal infections during ge

SUBMITTER: Walle KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242954 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature