Prenatal vitamin D status and risk of psychotic experiences at age 18years?a longitudinal birth cohort

Sullivan, Sarah, Wills, Andrew, Lawlor, Debbie, McGrath, John and Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211 2013. Prenatal vitamin D status and risk of psychotic experiences at age 18years?a longitudinal birth cohort. Schizophrenia Research 148 (1-3) , pp. 87-92. 10.1016/j.schres.2013.05.015

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Low early life vitamin D status is associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia and psychotic experiences. Here we examine if maternal pregnancy vitamin D concentrations are associated with offspring psychotic experiences as young adults. METHODS: A community sample of 2047 participants was investigated. Maternal prenatal 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations were assessed with tandem mass spectroscopy. Psychotic experiences were assessed at age 18years using a semi-structured clinical interview. RESULTS: 177 cohort members reported suspected or definite psychotic experiences, There was no evidence of an association between maternal 25(OH)D concentrations as quartiles (p=0.85 hypothesis test of general association versus no association across the quartiles) or as a continuous variable (p=0.89) versus experience of suspected and definite psychotic experiences at 18years. Within the cohort, only 29 subjects met criteria for a psychotic disorder at age 18. Based on this sample, there was no significant association between maternal 25(OH)D and psychotic disorder at 18years. DISCUSSION: Maternal vitamin D levels were not associated with risk of psychotic experiences nor psychotic disorders in this birth cohort.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Research Institutes & Centres > MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Schools > Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0920-9964
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 10:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/76790

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