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The risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children exposed to maternal smoking during pregnancy – a re‐examination using a sibling design
28 Oct 2015
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BACKGROUND: Conventional cohort studies have consistently shown that exposure to maternal smoking in pregnancy is associated with about twice the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the offspring. However, recent studies using alternative designs to disentangle the effect of social and genetic confounders have suggested that confounding may account for the association. In this study we...
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