Maternal Age and Incidence of Schizophrenia in the Republic of Ireland

1 September 1977

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 131 (3) , 301-305
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.131.3.301

Abstract

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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