Associations of Maternal Diabetes During Pregnancy With Psychiatric Disorders in Offspring During the First 4 Decades of Life in a Population-Based Danish Birth Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Maternal diabetes has been suggested as a risk factor for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism in offspring, but evidence on its association with the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders remains lacking.

Objective

To investigate the associations between maternal diabetes diagnosed before or during pregnancy and 10 types of psychiatric disorders in offspring during the first 4 decades of life.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based cohort study used data from several Danish nationwide medical and administrative registries in Denmark on all 2 413 335 live births from 1978 to 2016. Data were analyzed between October 1, 2019, and July 15, 2021.

Exposures

Any maternal diabetes diagnosis during pregnancy (56 206 offspring

SUBMITTER: Nogueira Avelar E Silva R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8517748 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature