Obstetric complications cause an increase in the risk for offspring developing schizophrenia in the later years of life.

A recent Danish research established this fact on the basis of the study conducted at the Aarhus University, Denmark.Dr. Majella Byrne and her colleague associate researchers examined exposure to obstetric complications among 1,039 individuals aged at least 15 years and who were admitted to hospital between the period 1981 and 1998 for schizophrenia. The team of researchers then compared the results, and recordings of the data collected with the 24,826 young adults who had never been admitted to any psychiatric facility.

The study found that the individuals demonstrated an eight times more probability and likelihood of developing schizophrenia if they were born to mothers who suffered through influenza during their pregnancy period.

It was revealed by the study findings that the risk for schizophrenia was also increased among those individuals whose mothers were ‘pre-eclamptic’ or had a ‘premature delivery’ or a ‘hemorrhage’ during parturition. The rate of increase of possibility in each of these cases was recorded as 2.72, 2.39, and 2.43-fold respectively.

The research study also revealed that the women whose babies had to be manually extracted were having 2.15 times more likelihood for developing ‘schizophrenia’ in the later years of their life in comparison to the children born without any assistance. Similarly, ‘maternal sepses also increased the risk for developing ‘schizophrenia’ in the older stage of life almost three fold.

The researchers however noted simultaneously that there were no significant interactions between any other obstetric complications and psychiatric disorders.

Dr.Majella Byrne and colleague researchers at the Aarhus University, Denmark concluded with the satisfactory remarks over the research findings, “these data suggest a modest association between prematurity, indicators of hypoxia, maternal infections, and maternal behaviors and risk of the later development of schizophrenia.”

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