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Maternal Age and Incidence of Schizophrenia in the Republic of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Per Dalén
Per Dalén*
Affiliation:
University of Göteborg, St Jörgen's Hospital, 422 03 Hisings Backa, Sweden
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Summary

The excess incidence of schizophrenia reported from Ireland may partly be due to the unusual distribution of the Irish population by maternal age at birth.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 3 , September 1977 , pp. 301 - 305
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

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