Association of Prenatal Maternal Anemia with Tics and Tourette's Syndrome in Offspring.

ABSTRACT: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) accounts for most of the anemia in pregnancy, and iron is essential for neurodevelopment. Tics and Tourette's syndrome (TS) are neurodevelopmental disorders that manifest in childhood. A few studies reported an inconclusive association between iron deficiency and tics in children. No study has investigated the relationship between prenatal maternal anemia and tics in children. We aimed to assess the relationship between prenatal anemia exposure and the incidence of tics or TS in offspring. We linked the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to the Maternal and Child Health Database for the analysis and identified 153,854 children with prenatal anemia exposure and 2,014,619 children without prenatal anemia exposure from 2004 to 2016 and followed the

SUBMITTER: Liu YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8541066 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature