Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke may increase the risk of psychiatric disorders later in life, a Finnish researcher said at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in New Orleans. The finding comes from analysis of medical records of 175,869 people born in Finland from 1987 through 1989, according to Mikael Ekblad, a doctoral student at Turku University in Finland.
Those whose mothers smoked had up to a 44% increased risk of using psychiatric drugs in adult life.
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