Lotta Borg Skoglund

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Smoking during pregnancy

Familial confounding of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and ADHD in offspring

Previous research show that women who smoke during pregnancy have a higher risk of getting a child with ADHD, suggesting a causal negative effect of nicotine. But we show that this association also can be explained by heritability of ADHD.

Published: 2013-07-30

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volume 55, Issue 1

January 2014

Pages 61-68

Co-authors: Qi Chen, Brian M D'Onofrio, Paul Lichtenstein and Henrik Larsson