Prenatal Maternal Bereavement and Its Association With Intellectual Disability in the Offspring

Xiujuan Su1, Yongfu Yu, Lulu Meng

  • 1From the Clincial Research Centre, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital (Su), School of Medicine, Tongji University, China; Department of Clinical Medicine-Department of Clinical Epidemiology (Yu, Li), Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education (Yu), Fudan University; Department of Obstetrics, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital (Meng, Duan), School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; Clinical and Translational Research Center, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital (Zhao), School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; Department of Public Health Sciences (László), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Public Health Sciences (Valdimarsdóttir), University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Valdimarsdóttir), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Epidemiology (Valdimarsdóttir), Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Women & Children's Health Care, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital (Hua), School of Medicine, Tongji University; and Ministry of Education-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital (Li), Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Psychosomatic Medicine
|August 2, 2021
PubMed
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