Article
Association Between Prenatal Exposure to Poliovirus Infection and Adult Schizophrenia
1 Jul 1999
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OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to determine whether there is an association between prenatal exposure to poliovirus infection and later development of schizophrenia. METHOD: All Finnish patients born between 1951 and 1969 with discharge diagnoses of schizophrenia (N = 13,559) were identified from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register. Information on the monthly number of cases of paralytic poliomyelitis was...
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