Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:1496-1498
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Schizophrenia and prenatal exposure to the 1957 A2 influenza epidemic in Croatia

L Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Z Folnegovic, V Hrabak-Zerjavic, B Borcic, V Folnegovic- Smalc and E Susser
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.

The authors present data from the Republic of Croatia on schizophrenia rates in a birth cohort prenatally exposed to the 1957 A2 influenza epidemic and in comparison (unexposed) birth cohorts. The rate of schizophrenia did not differ significantly between the exposed and unexposed cohorts.

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