Mothers with severe mental illness are more likely to have children who are born dead or die within the first few months of studies published before the pressure in the Archives of disease in childhood (the fetus and newborn Edition). But the link between the cause of death and the death of a newborn will depend on the nature of mental illness of the mother, research shows.
Researchers studied the 1.45 million births and 7021 deaths over 25 years from 1973 to 1998 in Denmark to investigate links with severe mental illness.
Nevertheless, the chances of neonatal deaths and deaths from all causes were significantly higher in children whose mothers had been hospitalized for mental illness at any time prior to the birth of his son, that the mother has never acknowledged.
In total, 188 mothers of children died before birth were admitted primarily for schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, mood (affective) disorders such as manic depressive (bipolar disorder), and dependence on drugs or alcohol.
The risk of death from complications during childbirth were more than twice as high among mothers with drug or alcohol addiction.
Women with affective disorders are also more than twice higher than the birth of a child with congenital abnormalities, that he was killed.
Among the 6,646 children who died in the first months of life, 201 were born by mothers who had been hospitalized for mental illness at some time in their lives.
Women with schizophrenia are twice as likely that the baby died as a result of congenital anomaly shortly after childbirth compared with the general population.
Alcohol / drug abuse and emotional disorders were associated with doubling the risk of newborn death.
But for most causes of death, the risk of death or the death of a newborn is not for women with schizophrenia than for women with severe mental illness.
These results indicate that factors other than mental disorders is likely to be involved, the authors explain.
They may include a way of life, such as smoking and poor nutrition, poverty and lack of access to prenatal care, improving the chances of complications during childbirth, premature birth and low birth weight children.
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