Citation

Czeizel AE, Szabados A, Susánszky E. Mutat. Res. 1992; 269(1): 35-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0027-5107(92)90158-x

PMID

1381469

Abstract

Birth weight was evaluated in 777 and 217 livebirths, respectively, of index females and female partners of index males born before and after severe self-poisoning with drugs. Birth weight was also evaluated in matched controls. Babies born to index females months or years after an attempted self-poisoning were found to have a lower birth weight than before this suicide attempt. The difference in the birth weight of subsequent pregnancies of index and control females was also highly significant. A similar trend was observed in livebirths of female partners of index males. However, the differences were not significant between previous and subsequent pregnancies and between index cases and matched controls.

Language: en

Keywords

Drug Overdose; Female; Humans; Hungary; Infant, Low Birth Weight; Infant, Newborn; Male; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Outcome; Sex Factors; Suicide, Attempted