The authors compared the risk of schizophrenia in Dutch birth cohorts
that were or were not exposed during the second trimester of gestation to
the 1957 A2 influenza epidemic. Exposed birth cohorts did not have a higher
risk of schizophrenia. These findings suggest that, in some populations,
there is no relation between prenatal exposure to influenza and risk of
schizophrenia.
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